On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:44 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <jo...@britannica.bec.de> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 05:18:40PM +0200, Isaac Jurado wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger >> > Delta manifests are not meant to reduce the repository size, but the >> > amount of parsing to be done. >> >> That sounds intriguing. What kind of operations can complete without >> having to load the baseline manifest at all? > > There are primarily two uses. To find out what artifacts represent > control manifests, you have to check them for well-formedness. That > means that rebuild is a direct function of the raw, undeltafied size > of the repository. Second, you can compute changes between two > manifests that use the same base line directly. Third, it cuts the > delta chain depth a lot as well.
I didn't think about deep delta chains, thanks :-) So I take that delta manifests are a good thing to have. Therefore, I'll keep working on my patch to generate delta manifests from import. Thank you for the information. -- Isaac Jurado "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" Leonardo da Vinci _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
