From: Nicolas Pitre Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:46:46 GMT Subject: Re: [FYI] pack idx format Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vd5hpm2x0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This is still WIP but if anybody is interested... Once done, it > should become Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt. > [...] > > Pack file entry: <+ > > packed object header: > 1-byte type (upper 4-bit) Actually the type occupies only 3 bits (bits 4 to 6) as bit 7 is the size continuation bit. Nicolas