Re: Unresolved issues #3

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> >> That doesn't prove the non-existence of other code to do it.
> > 
> > So?  If the official and primary code for GIT doesn't support it, what 
> > is the point?  I'm telling you that if such packs exist they will simply 
> > barf with all official GIT releases later than v1.1.6 making your 
> > argument pointless.
> > 
> > I don't mind you documenting that historic intent for a bit that was 
> > never officially used, but at least let's document it right.
> 
> Historic fact. Between Thu May 19 08:56:22 2005 and Thu Feb  9 21:06:38
> 2006 bit 6 of the first byte of a delta hunk was interpreted to mean
> that the source of the copy was the result buffer. From Thu May 19
> 08:56:22 2005 on, the code to decode delta hunks in type 2 packs was
> available to everyone and anyone interested could make a pack encoder
> that would create packs that the core Git code would correctly read. The
> commit of Thu Feb  9 21:06:38 2006, d60fc, actually introduced a bug
> that would treat valid type 2 packs as invalid.