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Re: [PATCH] drop support for "experimental" loose objects

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Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 21, 2013, 20:19 UTC
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
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> BTW, I've also seen git cat-file --batch report wrong sizes for objects,
> sometimes without crashing. This is particularly problimatic because if
> the object size is wrong, it's very hard to detect the actual end of the
> object output in the batch mode stream.

Yeah, I think it might report wrong size in case of replaced objects for example. I looked at that following Junio's comment about the sha1_object_info() API, which, unlike read_sha1_file() API, does not interact with the "replace" mechanism:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/234023/

I started to work on a patch about this but didn't take the time to finish and post it.

Thanks, Christian.

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