From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 05:48:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Git files data formats documentation
Message-ID: <9e4733910608042248s18443277j436298229ed5ec05@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <44D42F0D.3040707@gmail.com>

You might make some notes about old format headers and new format ones
and the use_legacy_headers flag.

I started off looking at packs so I knew about TYPE_AND_BASE128_SIZE.
Next I wanted to write objects so I looked at sha1_file.c. If you
don't look at the code closely write_binary_header() will lead you to
believe that object files use TYPE_AND_BASE128_SIZE. It took me a
couple of hours to notice use_legacy_headers and discover that it
defaults to on.

Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com