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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] define the way new representation types are encoded
 in the pack
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:13:51 -0700
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Because all blobs in this tree object must be in a fixed order, and
>> they won't likely have meaningful names nor permission, should
>> CAT_TREE payload is a SHA-1 sequence of all blobs (or cat-trees if we
>> want nested trees) instead? IOW the tree is integrated into cat-tree
>> object, not as a separate tree object.
>
> I have no problem with that (I am not worried about minor details of the
> actual implementation of cat-tree yet).

Side note. It should be renamed "split-object" or something if we go the
route you suggest, as "tree"-ness of the actual representation is not
essential.