From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 15:29:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Lazily open pack index files on demand
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705271127110.3366@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510705262140rea5e1e5r49bdd5e99c466daa@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Dana How wrote:

> On 5/26/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > In pack v4 we're likely to move the SHA-1 table from the .idx file
> > into the front of the .pack file.  This makes the .idx file hold
> > only the offsets and the CRC checkums of each object.  If we start
> > making a super index, we have to duplicate the SHA-1 table twice
> > (once in the .pack, again in the super index).
> Hmm, hopefully the SHA-1 table can go at the _end_
> since with split packs that's the only time we know the number
> of objects in the pack... ;-)

Hmmm good point to consider.


Nicolas