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Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Oct 16, 2006, 02:52 UTC
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
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> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > The delta-base-offset case included a new object type that wasn't used
> > before hence there is no room for confusion, and yet that new delta object
> > could be encoded according to pack version 2 or pack version 3 which makes
> > it orthogonal to the pack version itself.
> 
> It's not a new object type. It's a new object _encoding_ method.

Not at all. If it was only a question of encoding method, then both of them could always be interchangeable and supersede the other, which is not the case here.

Nicolas
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Message 12 of 22 in “Recent and near future backward incompatibilities”
  1. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  2. pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.Junio C Hamano, Oct 15, 2006
  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  4. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  6. Jakub NarebskiOct 15, 2006
  7. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 16, 2006
  9. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  10. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  11. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  12. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  14. Nicolas PitreOct 16, 2006
  15. Junio C HamanoOct 17, 2006
  16. Nicolas PitreOct 17, 2006
  17. A Large Angry SCMOct 15, 2006
  18. Nicolas PitreOct 15, 2006
  19. Junio C HamanoOct 15, 2006
  20. Theodore TsoOct 15, 2006
  21. Linus TorvaldsOct 15, 2006
  22. Stephen HemmingerOct 16, 2006

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