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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Zero padded file modes...
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:10:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130905191038.GA15910@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1309051302570.14472@syhkavp.arg>

On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 01:09:34PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Jeff King wrote:
> 
> > There are basically two solutions:
> > 
> >   1. Add a single-bit flag for "I am 0-padded in the real data". We
> >      could probably even squeeze it into the same integer.
> > 
> >   2. Have a "classic" section of the pack that stores the raw object
> >      bytes. For objects which do not match our expectations, store them
> >      raw instead of in v4 format. They will not get the benefit of v4
> >      optimizations, but if they are the minority of objects, that will
> >      only end up with a slight slow-down.
> 
> That is basically what I just suggested.  But instead of a special 
> section, simply using a special object type number would do it.

Yeah, I think we are in agreement. I only suggested a separate section
because I hadn't carefully read the v4 patches yet, and didn't know if
there was room in the normal sequence. A special object number seems
much more elegant.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-05 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-05 14:00 Zero padded file modes John Szakmeister
2013-09-05 15:36 ` Jeff King
2013-09-05 16:18   ` Duy Nguyen
2013-09-05 16:33     ` Jeff King
2013-09-05 16:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-05 16:25   ` A Large Angry SCM
2013-09-05 17:09   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-09-05 19:10     ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-09-05 17:13   ` John Szakmeister
2013-09-05 19:35     ` Jeff King

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