From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:49:35 GMT
Subject: Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!
Message-ID: <pan.2005.06.28.19.49.33.828202@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506281111480.19755@ppc970.osdl.org>

Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Ugly, in any case.

Why not chunk the thing?

In other words, the stream shouldn't be

	"here's a big-ass packfile of unknown size"

but an arbitrary number of

	"here's a N-byte sized chunk of the current pack file"
snippets, followed by a
	"here's the SHA1 of the whole thing"
packet.

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