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Re: [PATCH 4/5] support reading uncompressed loose object

From
LYLiu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 3, 2008, 04:09 UTC
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Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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> Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Liu Yubao <yubao.liu@gmail.com>
> 
> I'd like to see a bit more of an explanation of the new loose
> object format you are reading in the commit message.  We have a
> long history of explaining *why* the code behaves the way it does
> in our commits, so we can look at it in blame/log and understand
> what the heck went on.
>

I mentioned in the cover letter sent as patch 0/5, indeed I should have mentioned it in the commit message again.

An uncompressed loose object is just an uncompressed loose object:

loose object = deflate(typename + <space> + size + '\0' + data) uncompressed object = inflate(loose object)

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Message 18 of 27 in “two questions about the format of loose object”
  1. Liu YubaoDec 1, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoDec 1, 2008
  3. Liu YubaoDec 1, 2008
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 1, 2008
  5. Liu YubaoDec 2, 2008
  6. Shawn O. PearceDec 1, 2008
  7. Liu YubaoDec 2, 2008
  8. 0/5 support reading and writing uncompressed loose objectLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  9. 1/5 avoid parse_sha1_header() accessing memory out of boundLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  10. Shawn O. PearceDec 2, 2008
  11. Liu YubaoDec 3, 2008
  12. 2/5 don't die immediately when convert an invalid type nameLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  13. 3/5 optimize parse_sha1_header() a little by detecting object typeLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  14. Shawn O. PearceDec 2, 2008
  15. Liu YubaoDec 3, 2008
  16. 4/5 support reading uncompressed loose objectLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  17. Shawn O. PearceDec 2, 2008
  18. Liu YubaoDec 3, 2008
  19. 5/5 support writing uncompressed loose objectLiu Yubao, Dec 2, 2008
  20. Shawn O. PearceDec 2, 2008
  21. Liu YubaoDec 3, 2008
  22. Liu YubaoDec 2, 2008
  23. Nick AndrewDec 1, 2008
  24. Liu YubaoDec 2, 2008
  25. Shawn O. PearceDec 1, 2008
  26. Liu YubaoDec 2, 2008
  27. Nicolas PitreDec 4, 2008

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