From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: <46a038f90602080114r2205d72cmc2b5c93f6fffe03d@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Martin Langhoff , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 08 18:05:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6sh4-0003sS-Gb for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:01:26 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030606AbWBHRBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:01:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030607AbWBHRBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:01:23 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:13778 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030606AbWBHRBW (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 12:01:22 -0500 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k18H1EDZ031844 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:15 -0800 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k18H1DIW001053; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:01:14 -0800 To: Johannes Schindelin In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.68__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.129 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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