From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sf Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] sha1_file: add the ability to parse objects in "pack file format" Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:24:59 +0200 Message-ID: <44B4172B.3070503@stephan-feder.de> References: <20060710230132.GA11132@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> <20060711145527.GA32468@hpsvcnb.fc.hp.com> Reply-To: sf-gmane@stephan-feder.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 11 23:30:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Po2-0005Zl-V1 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:30:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751321AbWGKVaG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:30:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751325AbWGKVaG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:30:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:52116 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751321AbWGKVaE (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:30:04 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Pnu-0005Xa-A7 for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:30:02 +0200 Received: from ip-213157024137.dialin.heagmedianet.de ([213.157.24.137]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:30:02 +0200 Received: from sf-gmane by ip-213157024137.dialin.heagmedianet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:30:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-213157024137.dialin.heagmedianet.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060606) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git > object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding. > > The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length > information, which is somewhat wasteful. And in the traditional format type and length are compressed whereas in the pack-file format they are not. > This should probably be applied to the main tree asap if we think > this is at all a worthwhile exercise. But somebody should verify that I > got the format right first! Sorry but see above. Regards Stephan