Re: Understanding version 4 packs

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 02:02 UTC
Message-ID: <20070326020257.GB13247@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703252102520.3041@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> Maybe simply 3 bytes might be a good compromise too.  I doubt a single 
> pack is ever to contain 4G paths since it is limited to 4G _objects_ in 
> the first place.

16M paths is also a lot. ;-)

> BTW Shawn there is no need to store the number of tree records at the 
> beginning of the tree object since that can be deduced directly from the 
> object size stored in the object header.

Doh.  Yes, of course.

-- 
Shawn.