From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:13 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602080853480.2458@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602080815180.2458@g5.osdl.org>
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The fact that all the operations work on a full object, and the delta's
> are (on purpose) just a very specific and limited kind of size
> compression is just very ingrained.
Side note: the original explicit git "delta" objects by Nicolas Pitre
would have handled this large-file-case much more gracefully.
The pack-files had absolutely huge advantages, though, so I think we (I)
did the right thing there in making the delta code only a very specific
special case..
It is possible that we could re-introduce the "explicit delta" object,
though (it's not incompatible with also doing pack-files, it's just that
pack-files made 99% of all the arguments for an explicit delta go away).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-08 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 9:14 Handling large files with GIT Martin Langhoff
2006-02-08 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-08 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-08 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-02-08 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-08 21:20 ` Florian Weimer
2006-02-08 22:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-13 1:26 ` Ben Clifford
2006-02-13 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 23:17 ` Ian Molton
2006-02-13 23:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-14 18:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-14 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 21:21 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-14 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 0:40 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-15 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 4:03 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-15 2:07 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-15 2:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 9:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16 3:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16 3:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-16 20:32 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2006-02-13 5:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-13 6:07 ` Keith Packard
2006-02-14 0:07 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-13 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 4:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-09 4:54 ` Greg KH
2006-02-09 5:38 ` Martin Langhoff
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