From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:15:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Example Cogito Addon - cogito-bundle
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610181711110.3962@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0610181655430.3962@g5.osdl.org>



On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So I'll happily send my patches to anybody who wants to try (I don't write 
> the index file yet, but it should be easy to add), but I'm getting the 
> feeling that "builtin-unpack-objects.c" is the wrong tool to use for this, 
> because it's very much designed for streaming.

A potentially even simpler way would probably be to literally just use 
"git-pack-objects" directly, and just have a very special mode that allows 
mapping the thin pack as if it was a real pack (ie basically 
pre-populating a fake pack entry, where the fake part comes from adding 
the missing objects by hand to the mapping).

So many ways to do it, so little real motivation ;)

		Linus