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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding version 4 packs
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:02:57 -0400
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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> Maybe simply 3 bytes might be a good compromise too.  I doubt a single 
> pack is ever to contain 4G paths since it is limited to 4G _objects_ in 
> the first place.

16M paths is also a lot. ;-)
 
> BTW Shawn there is no need to store the number of tree records at the 
> beginning of the tree object since that can be deduced directly from the 
> object size stored in the object header.

Doh.  Yes, of course.

-- 
Shawn.