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Re: generation numbers

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2011, 20:31 UTC
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<201107072231.13181.jnareb@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > You could "cheat" and instead of storing the sha1 of a blob object in
> > the notes tree, use the lower 32 bits to store an actual value. I don't
> > think that currently breaks any assumptions in the notes code, but it
> > definitely is against the intent of it.
> 
> I highly suspect that it would break fsck rather badly.  You may not even
> be able to repack a repository with such a notes tree.

Well, we could (ab)use file mode to mark that what would be sha1 actually stores fixed-width content of a file, like we do with submodules.

This technique is I think quite similar in idea to filesystems storing contents of small files in file inode, isn't it?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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