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From: linux@horizon.com
To: gitzilla@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, linux@horizon.com
Subject: Re: A look at some alternative PACK file encodings
Date: 7 Sep 2006 05:07:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060907090756.30111.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)

> Support for 'thin' packs would pretty much require mixing IDs and
> (relative) offsets in the same pack file.

An alternative would be to create a small "placeholder" object that
just gives an ID, then refer to it by offset.

That would avoid the need for an id/offset bit with every offset,
and possibly save more space if the same object was referenced
multiple times.

And it just seems simpler.

             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-07  9:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-07  9:07 linux [this message]
2006-09-07 12:57 ` A look at some alternative PACK file encodings Jon Smirl
2006-09-07 13:34   ` linux
2006-09-07 14:19     ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-07 15:01       ` linux
2006-09-07 14:39     ` Richard Curnow
2006-09-07 17:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07 17:22   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-07 17:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07 19:22   ` linux
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-09-07  8:41 linux
2006-09-07 17:20 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07 19:16   ` linux
2006-09-06 21:47 A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-06 23:23 ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-06 23:39   ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-06 23:56     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-07  0:10       ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-07  0:06         ` David Lang
2006-09-07  0:19       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-07  0:45         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-09-07  0:37       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07  0:04     ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-07  5:41       ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-07  5:34     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-07  0:40   ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07  0:59     ` Jon Smirl
2006-09-07  2:30       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07  2:33       ` A Large Angry SCM
2006-09-07  1:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07  2:47       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-09-07  4:33     ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-07  5:27       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07  5:46         ` Shawn Pearce
2006-09-07 18:50           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-09-07  5:21   ` Shawn Pearce
     [not found] ` <9e4733910609061617m6783d6c4xaca2f9575e12d455@mail.gmail.com>
2006-09-07  5:39   ` A Large Angry SCM

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