Re: Achieving efficient storage of weirdly structured repos

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On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:13:10PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> Well, in your example, the large image part should already be common to 
> many objects due to deltas if they're really the same: different objects 
> will only have different EXIF data plus a delta reference to the same 
> base image object. So in a way the split is already there.  Needs only 
> that some applications exploit this information at runtime.

Yes, the resulting packfiles find the deltas and are pretty efficient
(although it is quite slow to pack).  However, the delta information is
not used at all for inexact rename detection. Are you proposing to make
that information available to the rename detector?

-Peff
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