Although it was described as such, git-mkdelta didn't really attempt to
find the best delta against any previous object in the list, but was
only able to create a delta against the preceeding object. This patch
reworks the code to fix that limitation and hopefully makes it a bit
clearer than before, including fixing the delta loop detection which was
broken.
This means that
git-mkdelta sha1 sha2 sha3 sha4 sha5 sha6
will now create a sha2 delta against sha1, a sha3 delta against either
sha2 or sha1 and keep the best one, a sha4 delta against either sha3,
sha2 or sha1, etc. The --max-behind argument limits that search for the
best delta to the specified number of previous objects in the list. If
no limit is specified it is unlimited (note: it might run out of
memory with long object lists).
Also added a -q (quiet) switch so it is possible to have 3 levels of
output: -q for nothing, -v for verbose, and if none of -q nor -v is
specified then only actual changes on the object database are shown.
Finally the git-deltafy-script has been updated accordingly, and some
bugs fixed (thanks to Stephen C. Tweedie for spotting them).
This version has been toroughly tested and I think it is ready
for public consumption.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This adds the ability to actually create delta objects using a new tool:
git-mkdelta. It uses an ordered list of potential objects to deltafy
against earlier objects in the list. A cap on the depth of delta
references can be provided as well, otherwise the default is to not have
any limit. A limit of 0 will also undeltafy any given object.
Also provided is the beginning of a script to deltafy an entire
repository.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
