From: sf <sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:24:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format"
Message-ID: <44B4172B.3070503@stephan-feder.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607111010320.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git
> object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding.
> 
> The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length
> information, which is somewhat wasteful.

And in the traditional format type and length are compressed whereas in
the pack-file format they are not.

> This should probably be applied to the main tree asap if we think
> this is at all a worthwhile exercise. But somebody should verify that I 
> got the format right first!

Sorry but see above.

Regards
	Stephan