From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:17:41 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] introduce a commit metapack
Message-ID: <7vk3qvm962.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130130071209.GD11147@sigill.intra.peff.net>

> True, but it is even less headache if the file is totally separate and
> optional.

Once you start thinking about using an offset to some list of SHA-1,
perhaps?  A section inside the same file can never go out of sync.
Also a longer-term advantage is that you can teach index-pack to do
this.