> Sorry for the slow reply; I've been on vacation. No worries.
> When you build your bitmaps, do you set the pack.writeBitmapHashCache > option? We found that it makes a significant difference during the > compression phase, as otherwise git attempts deltas between random files > based on size. Here are some numbers for a simulated fetch from > torvalds/linux, representing about 7 weeks of history. Running: Yeah, I enabled this option. I don't have timings for generating the bitmap index without this option unfortunately (this is a pretty large repo, doing the full repack that I needed to do to generate the first version took 15+ minutes) > Having been confused by it myself before, I think the magic keyword is > "preferred base". Once you know that, the code makes more sense. :) Ah, nice! That was pretty confusing :-) > Let me know how this patch does for you. My testing has been fairly > limited so far. This patch looks like a much cleaner version :-). Works well for me, but my test setup may not be great since I didn't get any errors from completely ignoring the haves bitmap :-). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
