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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Revisiting large binary files issue.
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:14:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v7j2l833o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060710230132.GA11132@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> (Carl Baldwin's message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:01:32 -0600")

Carl Baldwin <cnb@fc.hp.com> writes:

> First, I would like to be able to set the packing window to 0 for all of
> the git commands.  It would be nice if I could set this in a
> per-repository config file so that any push/fetch operation would honor
> this window.  Is there currently a way to do this?

Should not be hard to add.

> Second, I would like to not pay the penalty to inflate and then deflate
> the objects into the pack when I use a window of 0.  How hard would this
> be?  I am a capable programmer and wouldn't mind getting my hands dirty
> in the code to implement this if someone could point me in the right
> direction.

The problem is that unpacked objects have the single line header
(type followed by its inflated size in decimal) which starts the
deflated stream, while in-pack representation of non-delta does
not.

There was an attempt to help doing this, but I haven't pursued it.

	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/17368

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-10 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-10 23:01 Revisiting large binary files issue Carl Baldwin
2006-07-10 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-07-11  6:20   ` Peter Baumann
2006-07-10 23:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11  9:40   ` [RFC]: Pack-file object format for individual objects (Was: Revisiting large binary files issue.) sf
2006-07-11 18:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 21:45       ` sf
2006-07-11 22:17         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 22:26           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 14:55   ` Revisiting large binary files issue Carl Baldwin
2006-07-11 17:09     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 17:10       ` [PATCH 1/3] Make the unpacked object header functions static to sha1_file.c Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 17:12       ` [PATCH 2/3] sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format" Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 18:40         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-11 18:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 19:20             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-11 19:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 21:25                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-11 21:47                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-11 21:24         ` sf
2006-07-11 22:09           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-11 22:25             ` sf
2006-07-11 23:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-12  0:03               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12  0:39                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-07-12  3:45                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12  4:31                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12  6:35                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-12 16:29                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12  0:46                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-12  3:42                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12  6:49                 ` Peter Baumann
2006-07-12  7:16                   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-12  8:28                     ` Peter Baumann
2006-07-12 15:13                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-07-12 15:27                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-07-11 17:16       ` [PATCH 3/3] Enable the new binary header format for unpacked objects Linus Torvalds

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