Re: Understanding version 4 packs

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mar 26, 2007, 14:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703260959310.3041@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <eu818b$im6$2@sea.gmane.org>

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> 
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> 
> >> BTW Shawn there is no need to store the number of tree records at the 
> >> beginning of the tree object since that can be deduced directly from the 
> >> object size stored in the object header.
> > 
> > Doh.  Yes, of course.
> 
> But if it makes for easier _implementation_, perhaps it should stay...

No.

I don't think a division by 6 is that much of an implementation issue.

Nicolas