From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Mozilla .git tree Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:53:54 -0700 Message-ID: <7virk6yopp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <9e4733910608291958l45c0257dla6e5ebd4176f7164@mail.gmail.com> <20060830031029.GA23967@spearce.org> <7vzmdmh2lu.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <7vr6yw58xp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060902011950.GB24234@spearce.org> <7v8xl23oia.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <20060902043931.GA25146@spearce.org> <7vveo6zfx0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <9e4733910609020720w3633aa0cq5016fb1e223fc4cb@mail.gmail.com> <20060902173922.GA27826@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Shawn Pearce , Jon Smirl , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 02 22:54:31 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 1GJcVZ-0007e9-FA for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 22:54:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751573AbWIBUxu (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:53:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751575AbWIBUxu (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:53:50 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net ([68.230.241.36]:19414 "EHLO fed1rmmtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751572AbWIBUxs (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:53:48 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo02.cox.net ([70.169.32.72]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060902205348.FEXB2704.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@fed1rmimpo02.cox.net>; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:53:48 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id HYto1V00P1kojtg0000000 Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:53:49 -0400 To: Linus Torvalds User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > >> I think Junio and Nico have already agreed to change the base SHA1 >> to be an offset instead; I am not in favor of that, at least not yet, especially I haven't thought about the implications of that on streaming unpacker. I do not have much objections about changing base-delta order, though. > Of course, if we change the pack/index-file format for other reasons, then > we should obviously fix the 4G issue at the same time, but were there > actually any real other reasons at this point? Not really, from my point of view. Probably 70% of motivation of the new \377tOc index format originally came from wanting to have "where is the end of this object" which turned out to be unneeded; and by making repack easier to use I think we do not have to solve 4G issue either. There is only one case that might need a single pack that can be indexed with 4G offset: initial clone or repack of a huge repository. -- VGER BF report: U 0.788936