From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:52:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use of version 3 delta is now optional.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610152247270.17085@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <45329359.1030302@gmail.com>

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote:

> 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