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Re: support for large packs and 64-bit offsets

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Apr 9, 2007, 18:34 UTC
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<20070409183412.GY5436@spearce.org>
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Once Junio merges the series in a branch of its own, we could have a 
> separate patch not in that branch that simply forces those features on 
> in branch 'next'.  People would only need to remenber not publishing 
> repos with that version using dumb protocols.

Better to force features by config file option or command line option, then by code hacked into a branch. This way we can enable the feature all of the time in a test case, and push it. E.g. the sliding window controls; nobody really uses them in practice (I don't think anyway) but they are handy in the test cases to force particular conditions, without creating huge temporary packfiles.

-- 
Shawn.
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Message 23 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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