From: A Large Angry SCM Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:56:34 GMT Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #3 Message-ID: <44E5D522.8030407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote: ... >> >> 1) I disagree with Nico's assessment that, other than his, there can not >> exist any type 2 packs that have bit 6 set to mean copy from result. > > Care to explain why? > > Since this code is mine I can tell you that no official GIT version ever ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > produced such a pack. The code to make use of that bit was quite > involving and the end result wasn't great at all so I never published > said code. This is also why current GIT accepts both pack version 2 and > 3 without any distinction using the same code in patch-delta.c on the > basis that no version 2 packs ever used that bit. That doesn't prove the non-existence of other code to do it.