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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change 'Deltifying objects' to 'Delta compressing
	objects'
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 09:21:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I'd love it, but the way our current SHA1 parser works, I don't think it 
> can really do it.
> 
> Basically, we currently assume that a SHA1 expression always expands to a 
> *single* SHA1.

Ah, right. I hadn't thought of that. While it would be a nice
convenience feature, it's probably not worth the deep internal hackery
that would be required.

-Peff