- Concerning Git's Packing Heuristics
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+Concerning Git's Packing Heuristics
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Oh, here's a really stupid question:
<linus> The "magic" is actually in theory totally arbitrary.
ANY order will give you a working pack, but no, it's not
- ordered by SHA1.
+ ordered by SHA-1.
Before talking about the ordering for the sliding delta
window, let's talk about the recency order. That's more
<linus> Yes, we always write out most recent first
-For the other record:
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- <pasky> njs`: http://pastebin.com/547965
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-The 'net never forgets, so that should be good until the end of time.
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<njs`> And, yeah, I got the part about deeper-in-history stuff
having worse IO characteristics, one sort of doesn't care.