From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:18:01 GMT
Subject: Re: CAREFUL! No more delta object support!
Message-ID: <pan.2005.06.28.20.17.59.178402@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.06.28.19.49.33.828202@smurf.noris.de>

I wrote:

> 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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