fastimport and the scope of the hottest 100 effort

[John Arbash Meinel]

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>> For each of these, fastimport may be the best option, given
>> fastimport-generated branches are often much smaller than those created
>> via Jelmer's plugins.
> Is this still true after packing? I'm a bit surprised as to what could
> be causing this. We have the same data, after all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jelmer
> 

It is probably dependent on how you are generating the file-ids.
Specifically, 'groupcompress' sorts on file-id, which tends to group
similar filenames together. If your file-ids are based on *path* rather
than *basename* that often shows a sizeable difference. (It puts mixed
content together, rather than putting all 'checkmark.png' files together.)

At least, Ian & I found that with some of the fastimport streams.

John
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