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[PATCH 0/2] pack-format.txt: document lengths at start of delta data

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MÅMartin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 21, 2020, 07:54 UTC
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Hi Ross,

Welcome to the list and thanks for reporting your findings. I haven't looked at all at the first issue you brought up, about the protocol-v2 doc.

On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 18:10, Ross Light <ross@zombiezen.com> wrote:
> 2. In the pack-format doc, the Deltified representation section [2]
> describes the instruction sequence well, but neglects to mention the
> two size varints [3] at the beginning of such an object.
Would something like this be what you have in mind?
Martin Ågren (2):
  pack-format.txt: define "varint" format
  pack-format.txt: document lengths at start of delta data
 Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 22 +++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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2.30.0.rc1
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Message 2 of 8 in “Documentation errors for HTTP protocol v2 and packfile”
  1. Ross LightDec 19, 2020
  2. 0/2 pack-format.txt: document lengths at start of delta dataMartin Ågren, Dec 21, 2020
  3. 1/2 pack-format.txt: define "varint" formatMartin Ågren, Dec 21, 2020
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 21, 2020
  5. Martin ÅgrenDec 29, 2020
  6. 2/2 pack-format.txt: document lengths at start of delta dataMartin Ågren, Dec 21, 2020
  7. Ross LightDec 23, 2020
  8. pack-format.txt: document sizes at start of delta dataMartin Ågren, Dec 29, 2020

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