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Re: support for large packs and 64-bit offsets

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 9, 2007, 17:19 UTC
Message-ID
<20070409171925.GS5436@spearce.org>
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
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> This patch series adds support for large packs to GIT.  It creates a new
> index format to accommodate both larger offsets and to store a checksum
> for each raw object in a pack.  More details is provided in each patch
> commit message.
> 
> This is not a replacement for the pack size limiting feature.  I think that
> GIT should support both: large packs and split packs.

I like this series. I haven't had time to test it myself yet, and probably won't be able to do so before Junio merges it into a pu or next release. But it looks OK on a first read.

It is unfortunate that we are changing the index file format without also bringing in packv4 support at the same time. I have just been too swamped in useless bulls**t in day-job work to spend time on Git lately.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 14 of 24 in “support for large packs and 64-bit offsets”
  1. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007
  2. 01/10 get rid of num_packed_objects()Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  3. 02/10 make overflow test on delta base offset work regardless of variable sizeNicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  4. 03/10 add overflow tests on pack offset variablesNicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  5. 04/10 compute a CRC32 for each object as stored in a packNicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  6. 05/10 compute object CRC32 with index-packNicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  7. 06/10 pack-objects: learn about pack index version 2Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  8. 07/10 index-pack: learn about pack index version 2Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  9. 08/10 sha1_file.c: learn about index version 2Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  10. 09/10 show-index.c: learn about index v2Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  11. 10/10 pack-redundant.c: learn about index v2Nicolas Pitre, Apr 9, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2007
  13. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007
  14. Shawn O. PearceApr 9, 2007
  15. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007
  16. Shawn O. PearceApr 9, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2007
  18. Shawn O. PearceApr 9, 2007
  19. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2007
  21. Linus TorvaldsApr 9, 2007
  22. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007
  23. Shawn O. PearceApr 9, 2007
  24. Nicolas PitreApr 9, 2007

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