From: sf <sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:25:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format"
Message-ID: <44B42567.9010307@stephan-feder.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607111449190.5623@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
...
> The common byte sequence for a compressed stream is
> 
> 	78 9c ...
> 
> where the first byte is the CMF byte (compression info and method).
> 
> But it's not the only possible such sequence according to the zlib format.

No, but 0x78 is the only first byte ever produced by git; the files are
always deflated (second nibble is 8) with window size 32K (first nibble
is 7).