From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 09:31:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] define the way new representation types are encoded in the pack
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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> 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?

Hmm.. big files in general with partial file transfer (e.g. git
torrent). But if CAT_TREE is properly used, then all blob pieces
should be reasonably small and decompress time should not be a
problem. I think we won't need this. Sorry for the noise.
-- 
Duy