Re: getting list of objects for packing

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Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Brandon Casey wrote:
>
>>>   -The sed statement is stripping off anything after the sha1. Any way to
>>>    get rev-list to print out just the sha1 so that sed is not necessary?
>> 
>> If you strip the data after the SHA1 when pipping into pack-objects then 
>> you'll have horrible delta compression results.  The path names after 
>> each SHA1 is used to sort objects when trying to find best matches for 
>> delta compression. So you should preserve those and feed it back 
>> especially with those packs that you still want delta compression for.
>
> Ah, I'll have to rethink my script then. Thanks!

Yeah, but wasn't the purpose of your whole exercise to list objects that
do not delta nor compress well with each other, in which case the delta
compression order (aka name hash) would not matter, no?
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