On 4/21/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text
> On 4/21/07, Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well, why to store always the full length SHA?
>
> When Shawn gets done with full compression the SHAs would get stored
> in the packfile once  and then be replaced with a token generated from
> the compression algorithm. Compression tokens are designed to use the
> minimal number of bits depending on frequency of occurrence.
>

Currently in Lunux tree there are about 445.424 objects (git
count-objects -v), if each object has his 40 bytes name it is about
20MB to store sha *once*, probably with no real disambiguate need to
be that much.

Marco
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