From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:41:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] define the way new representation types are encoded in the pack
Message-ID: <m3wrbp44kr.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7v62j9veh3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> When bit 4-6 encodes type 5, the first byte is used this way:
> 
>  - Bit 0-3 denotes the real "extended" representation type. Because types
>    0-7 can already be encoded without using the extended format, we can
>    offset the type by 8 (i.e. if bit 0-3 says 3, it means representation
>    type 11 = 3 + 8);

Why not use third byte for that instead?

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Jakub Narębski