[RFC] Cheap re-pack?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Robert Collins wrote:
>>  AIUI, that's an expensive operation, because it requires
>> generating deltas for 10 commits at re-pack time.
> 
> autopack preserves the existing deltas

Which existing deltas?  I thought every time you committed it would
create a fulltext, since the plan was to have the last-committed
revision be a fulltext.

> Autopack is intended to be cheap as possible, its only reason for
> existence is to cap the latency generated by having multiple pack files
> and their associated indices.

This would probably make sense if I understood why there are existing
deltas.  As I understood it, there would be no existing deltas.

Aaron
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