Re: Backward or forward deltas, backend, FSX

On Feb 15, 2018, at 4:11 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Péter wrote on Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:47 +0100:
> I'm not sure why you say "at least" 17 deltas. The default value of
> max-linear-deltification (see fsfs.conf) is 16, meaning that no fulltext
> will require 17 delta applications to produce.
>

Does this mean that when checking out HEAD from a repository with a large number of commits, the oldest revision it must access is HEAD - 16? In other words, is a compressed full text stored every 16 revisions?

Nathan Hartman
Received on 2018-02-16 04:02:10 CET