Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Extensions to automation, again

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:05:46PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Ah, but if you just want the size, can't you just uncompress the
> (single) delta for the version you want and look at that (add up the
> sizes of the copies and inserts)?  (Just making full-text copies the
> worst case, I suppose.)

Oh, uh -- good point.  We even had a function to do this
(xdelta.cc:measure_delta_target_size) that got stripped out a few
months ago because there were no callers.

Objections withdrawn.

-- Nathaniel

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