Instead of spooling large delta bases into temporary files and then
immediately deleting them afterwards, spool the large delta out to
a normal loose object. Later any requests for that large delta can
be answered by reading from the loose object, which is much easier
to stream efficiently for readers.
Since the object is now duplicated, once in the pack as a delta and
again as a loose object, any future prune-packed will automatically
delete the loose object variant, releasing the wasted disk space.
As prune-packed is run automatically during either repack or gc, and
gc --auto triggers automatically based on the number of loose objects,
we get automatic cache management for free. Large objects that were
unpacked will be periodically cleared out, and will simply be restored
later if they are needed again.
After a short offline discussion with Junio Hamano today, we may want
to propose a change to prune-packed to hold onto larger loose objects
which also exist in pack files as deltas, if the loose object was
recently accessed or modified in the last 2 days.
Change-Id: I3668a3967c807010f48cd69f994dcbaaf582337c
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce
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