Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Oct 19, 2007, 04:29 UTC
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- <20071019042930.GA16487@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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- <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710182111030.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:21:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> I'd love it, but the way our current SHA1 parser works, I don't think it > can really do it. > > Basically, we currently assume that a SHA1 expression always expands to a > *single* SHA1.
Ah, right. I hadn't thought of that. While it would be a nice convenience feature, it's probably not worth the deep internal hackery that would be required.
-Peff