From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 07:41:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: name pack files after trailer hash
Message-ID: <52AEAEB2.6060203@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20131205202807.GA19042@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 12/05/2013 09:28 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> [...]
> This patch simply uses the pack trailer sha1 as the pack
> name. It should be similarly unique, but covers the exact
> representation of the objects. Other parts of git should not
> care, as the pack name is returned by pack-objects and is
> essentially opaque.
> [...]

Peff,

The old naming scheme is documented in
Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt, under "OPTIONS" -> "base-name":

> base-name::
> 	Write into a pair of files (.pack and .idx), using
> 	<base-name> to determine the name of the created file.
> 	When this option is used, the two files are written in
> 	<base-name>-<SHA-1>.{pack,idx} files.  <SHA-1> is a hash
> 	of the sorted object names to make the resulting filename
> 	based on the pack content, and written to the standard
> 	output of the command.

The documentation should either be updated or the description of the
naming scheme should be removed altogether.

Michael

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