Re: Java Inflater problem decompressing packfile

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 07:23:52AM -0700, madmarcos wrote:

> No, my inflater doesn't handle deltas, yet. 
> But there are a few reasons why I don't think that's the case.
> 1. The project has only been pushed once to the git repository before my
> tests. No updates to the git repository project or anything like that. 

You can still have deltas between blobs in a single commit, but only if
you have similar blobs.

> 2. If it were a delta, would the first 1/3 of it be completely normal and
> readable? There is no pattern that I can see to the remaining 2/3. It looks
> as if the characters in the 2/3 part were interleaved with the other
> characters about 10 times.

It wouldn't be completely normal, but you might see chunks of the file
along with binary patch instructions (like "put this chunk at offset
...").

> 3. The object type in the header is parsed as 3, or a blob. Aren't the delta
> object types higher numbers than that?

Yeah, if it is coming up as type 3, then it should definitely be a
whole, literal blob.

As far as your Java code, I don't see anything overtly wrong, but then,
I know absolutely nothing about any of the classes you are using.

-Peff