On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 00:09, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Git also does delta-chains, but it does them a lot more "loosely". There > is no fixed entity. Delta's are generated against any random other version > that git deems to be a good delta candidate (with various fairly > successful heursitics), and there are absolutely no hard grouping rules.
I'd like to learn more about that. Can someone point me to either more documentation on it? In the absence of that, perhaps a pointer to the source code that implements it? I guess one question I posit is, would it be more accurate to think of this as a "delta net" in a weighted graph rather than a "delta chain"? Thanks, jdl
