Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a brief note on "delta compression"

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>

    > The appropriate size for [number of changesets combined in a
    > summary delta] is the jump which people want to frequently
    > make. That's probably precisely the distance between each pair of
    > releases.

That's tautologically correct but also insightful.  A mildly smart
server that does cached changeset composition will produce that
behavior (and other desirable behaviors, too).  (Hence the protocol
design discussion a few weeks back.)

-t

p.s.: is there something wrong with the most recent [CLAIM] message I
sent?  It's been delivered but Bug Goo doesn't seem to have noticed.