Re: [PATCH] Stop inflating the whole SHA1 file only to check size.

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Jun 2, 2005, 00:51 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0506012048330.17354@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7vpsv5hbm5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Using the new unpack_sha1_file_partial() function, stop
> inflating the whole SHA1 file when rename detector wants to know
> only the filesize.

Beware. If you have delta objects you'll get the size of the delta itself and not the final object size, unless you recurse until a non delta object is found.

Nicolas

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