From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:29:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing objects'
Message-ID: <20071019042930.GA16487@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710182111030.26902@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:21:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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