From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:10:26 GMT
Subject: Re: calculating a git packfile sha1 checksum in java
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1103221708370.11889@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <1300827506173-6197923.post@n2.nabble.com>

On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, madmarcos wrote:

> Hi Shawn,
> Thanks for the response!
> I looked at the JGit API. will it allow me to read a packfile, alter its
> contents, and repack it?

Why would you want to do that?  Altering a pack file in place is not a 
trivial affair.  There is also the corresponding pack index which has to 
be rebuilt, etc.


Nicolas