From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:41:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Lazily open pack index files on demand
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705271039170.3366@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510705262131g2d4186a0q605abbcea624d42d@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Dana How wrote:

> On 5/26/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > In other words, I think the naughty blob could simply be recognized as
> > such and be referenced in a special list instead of being written out
> > initially.  Then when everything is believed to be written, the special
> > list can be walked to force write those naughty blob at last.  No need
> > to modify the current object order.
> This works as long as a naughty blob can't be a delta base for a nice blob
> (causing it to be pushed out early by the recursion in write_one()).
> I think that's a reasonable and understandable restriction.

Sure.  Or the delta can inherit the naughty property if its base is also 
naughty, which solves the problem nicely.


Nicolas