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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> So I suggest that we get rid of core.legacyheaders, preserve the legacy 
> format as the only writable loose object format and deprecate the other 
> one to keep things simpler.  Thoughts?

I agree with your analysis, especially when deeper delta chains
are allowed, straight copy of loose object becomes less and less
likely.

> What we need instead is a --no-reuse-object that would force 
> recompression of everything when you really want to enforce a specific 
> compression level across the whole pack(s).

Yeah.  Or maybe --no-reuse to mean both and make '-f' a
short-hand synonym for that.

I do not see much reason to want to tweak them independently;
recomputing delta is much more expensive than recompressing
anyway, and when the user says 'repack -f', it is a sign that
the user is willing to spend CPU cycles.