On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Liu Yubao wrote: > In fact the format I proposed in my patches is uncompressed loose > object, not uncompressed loose object header, that's to say I > proposed format 2 in my question 2, I am just curious why the > loose object header is compressed in question 1. > > I did a test to add all files of git-1.6.1-rc1 with git-add, the > time spent decreased by half. Other commands like git diff, > git diff --cached, git diff HEAD~ HEAD should be faster now > although the change may be not noticable for small and medium project. Please try this with an unmodified git version: git config --global core.loosecompression 0 and redo your tests please. One thing that a purely uncompressed loose object format is missing is quick data integrity protection. With the above, you'll have all your loose objects uncompressed but they'll still have a CRC32 done over them. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
