From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:19:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop support for "experimental" loose objects
Message-ID: <CAP8UFD2S1HUDYLbmEGFqLcBFExuB0h7=gqwsQ0qjpMSc+YaXog@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131121160426.GA21843@kitenet.net>

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
>
> 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.