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Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!

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Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Jun 28, 2005, 20:18 UTC
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I wrote:
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> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
>> Ugly, in any case.
> 
> Why not chunk the thing?
Having the number of files sent first would work too, I'd think.

I'm wary of trying to interpret something non-decompressible as a sha1 chunk, however -- the set of random bytes that, to zlib, look like a sufficiently valid zip header that it wants to read more than 20 of them before punting is certainly not zero.

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Message 29 of 38 in “CAREFUL! No more delta object support!”
  1. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  2. Christopher LiJun 27, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  5. Christopher LiJun 28, 2005
  6. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  7. Benjamin LaHaiseJun 28, 2005
  8. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
  9. Jan HarkesJun 28, 2005
  10. Christopher LiJun 28, 2005
  11. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  12. Emit base objects of a delta chain when the delta is output.Junio C Hamano, Jun 29, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  14. Skip writing out sha1 files for objects in packed git.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  15. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  17. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  18. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 28, 2005
  20. Adjust to git-init-db creating $GIT_OBJECT_DIRECTORY/packJunio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  21. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  22. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  23. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  24. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  25. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  26. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  27. Linus TorvaldsJun 28, 2005
  28. Matthias UrlichsJun 28, 2005
  29. Matthias UrlichsJun 28, 2005
  30. Daniel BarkalowJun 28, 2005
  31. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  32. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  33. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2005
  34. Linus TorvaldsJun 29, 2005
  35. Daniel BarkalowJun 29, 2005
  36. Adjust fsck-cache to packed GIT and alternate object pool.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  37. Expose packed_git and alt_odb.Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005
  38. 3/3 Update fsck-cache (take 2)Junio C Hamano, Jun 28, 2005

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