X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Ftechnical%2Fpack-heuristics.txt;h=103eb5d989349c8e7e0147920b2e218caba9daf9;hb=460ca302fdf453459850676c049ed7b46b43a0d4;hp=eaab3eecd73427ccef02ef9ada0445a6f6ecd2ab;hpb=1a17ee22a2fbd85a893ab36fd53168d03554c2dd;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt index eaab3eecd..103eb5d98 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ The traditional insight: yes -And Bable-like confusion flowed. +And Babel-like confusion flowed. oh, hmm, and I'm not sure what this sliding window means either @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ proclaim it a non-issue. Good style too! (type, basename, size)). Then we walk through this list, and calculate a delta of - each object against the last n (tunable paramater) objects, + each object against the last n (tunable parameter) objects, and pick the smallest of these deltas. Vastly simplified, but the essence is there! @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ And of course there is the "Other Shoe" Factor too. - we actively try to generate deltas from a larger object to a smaller one - this means that the top-of-tree very seldom has deltas - (ie deltas in _practice_ are "backwards deltas") + (i.e. deltas in _practice_ are "backwards deltas") Again, we should reread that whole paragraph. Not just because Linus has slipped Linus's Law in there on us, but because it is @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ used as setup for a later optimization, which is a real word: do "object name->location in packfile" translation. I'm assuming the real win for delta-ing large->small is - more homogenous statistics for gzip to run over? + more homogeneous statistics for gzip to run over? (You have to put the bytes in one place or another, but putting them in a larger blob wins on compression) @@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ design options, etc. Bugs happen, but they are "simple" bugs. And bugs that actually get some object store detail wrong are almost always - so obious that they never go anywhere. + so obvious that they never go anywhere. Yeah.