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Re: [RFC/PATCH] define the way new representation types are encoded in the pack

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2011, 07:11 UTC
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
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> Because all blobs in this tree object must be in a fixed order, and
> they won't likely have meaningful names nor permission, should
> CAT_TREE payload is a SHA-1 sequence of all blobs (or cat-trees if we
> want nested trees) instead? IOW the tree is integrated into cat-tree
> object, not as a separate tree object.

I have no problem with that (I am not worried about minor details of the actual implementation of cat-tree yet).

> Not sure if it's related to representation types, but is there any way
> (perhaps FLAT_BLOB type?) we can mark an object uncompressed, so we
> can mmap() and access it directly?
In pack? Loose? Both?
What kind of payload and use case do you have in mind?
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  1. define the way new representation types are encoded in the packJunio C Hamano, Oct 28, 2011
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  3. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 30, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2011
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 30, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyOct 30, 2011
  7. Jakub NarebskiOct 28, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 28, 2011
  9. Shawn PearceOct 28, 2011
  10. Nicolas PitreOct 28, 2011
  11. Shawn PearceOct 28, 2011
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