From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:17:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] chunk-format: create chunk reading API
Message-ID: <xmqq5z5ih6v1.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <6801e231f7414444a272f2ea87dcc6f60f29e25a.1607012215.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> Now that the chunk-format API has a consistent mechanism for writing
> file formats based on chunks, let's extend it to also parse chunk-based
> files during read.

Heads-up.  The generation-data work by Abhishek would conflict with
the way how this refactors the way the beginning offset of each
chunk is found.