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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
To: Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: adding xdelta compression to git
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 00:12:23 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505030008070.14033@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505030657.38309.alonz@nolaviz.org>

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Alon Ziv wrote:

> Looking for novel methods of wasting my time :), I am considering adding 
> xdelta to git.
> 
> I have two concrete proposals, both of which (IMO) are consistent with the git 
> philosophy:
> 
> 1. Add a git-deltify command, which will take two trees and replace the second 
> tree's blobs with delta-blobs referring to the first tree. Each delta-blob is 
> self-contained; from the outside it looks like any other blob, but internally 
> it contains another blob reference + an xdelta. The only function which would 
> need to understand the new format would be unpack_sha1_file.
[....]

Guess what?

That's exactly what I did, except that I used libxdiff, stripped it to 
the bare minimum and even optimized it to be as efficient (i.e. fast) as 
possible given the git environment.

I'm finalizing the code right now.


Nicolas

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-03  4:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-03  3:57 RFC: adding xdelta compression to git Alon Ziv
2005-05-03  4:12 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2005-05-03  4:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03  5:30   ` Davide Libenzi
2005-05-03 15:52     ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-05-03 17:35       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 18:10         ` Davide Libenzi
2005-05-03  8:06   ` [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 11:24     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 12:51       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 15:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 16:09         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 15:57       ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-05-03 16:35         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:13     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:24       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 14:37         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 15:04           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 16:54             ` Chris Mason
2005-05-03 14:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03 15:52       ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-04 15:56     ` Chris Mason
2005-05-04 16:12       ` C. Scott Ananian
2005-05-04 17:44         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-04 22:03           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-04 22:43             ` Chris Mason
2005-05-05  3:25             ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-04 21:47       ` Geert Bosch
2005-05-04 22:34         ` Chris Mason
2005-05-05  3:10           ` Nicolas Pitre
2005-05-03 12:48   ` RFC: adding xdelta compression to git Dan Holmsand
2005-05-03 15:50   ` C. Scott Ananian

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