Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Sam Vilain wrote:

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> I think to go forward this would need a prototype and benchmark figures 
> for things like "annotate" and "fsck --full" - but bear in mind it would 
> be a long road to follow-up to completion, as repository compatibility 
> would need to be a primary concern and this essentially would create a 
> new pack type AND a new *object* type.

No new object type.  Why should it?  But it has to have a config variable 
which says what type of packs/loose objects it has (and you will not be 
able to mix them).

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> Not really worth it IMHO - gzip is already fast enough on even the most 
> modern processor these days.

I agree that gzip is already fast enough.

However, pack v4 had more goodies than just being faster; it also promised 
to have smaller packs.  And pack v4 would need to have the same 
infrastructure of repacking if the client does not understand v4 packs.

Ciao,
Dscho

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