Re: RFC: Another proposed hash function transition plan

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 6, 2017, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqvarmnt49.fsf@junio-linux.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170306084353.nrns455dvkdsfgo5@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>> You can use the doc URL
>> 
>>  https://goo.gl/gh2Mzc
>
> I'd encourage anybody following along to follow that link. I almost
> didn't, but there are a ton of comments there (I'm not sure how I feel
> about splitting the discussion off the list, though).

I am sure how I feel about it---we should really discourage it, unless it is an effort to help polishing an early draft for wider distribution and discussion.

> I don't think we do this right now, but you can actually find the entry
> (and exit) points of a pack during the index-pack step. Basically:

We have code to do the "entry point" computation in index-pack already, I think, in 81a04b01 ("index-pack: --clone-bundle option", 2016-03-03).

> I don't think using the "want"s as the entry points is unreasonable,
> though. The server _shouldn't_ generally be sending us other cruft.

That's true.