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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop support for "experimental" loose objects
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:44:48 -0800
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> We could try to improve the heuristic to err on the side of
> normal objects in the face of corruption, but there is
> really little point. The experimental format is long-dead,
> and was never enabled by default to begin with. We can
> instead simply remove it. The only affected repository would
> be one that explicitly set core.legacyheaders in 2007, and
> then never repacked in the intervening 6 years.

Sounds sensible.  Thanks.