Re: [PATCH] pack-format.txt: more details on pack file format

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: May 8, 2018, 18:21 UTC
Message-ID: <87bmdqxb2s.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180508155627.19245-1-pclouds@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 08 2018, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

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> The current document mentions OBJ_* constants without their actual
> values. A git developer would know these are from cache.h but that's
> not very friendly to a person who wants to read this file to implement
> a pack file parser.
>
> Similarly, the deltified representation is not documented at all (the
> "document" is basically patch-delta.c). Translate that C code in
> English.

Thanks, will drop my version from v4, although a comment for the enum in cache.h pointing the reader to these docs would be very useful.

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