From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #3 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <7vpseyelcw.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <44E546F2.7070902@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 18 16:49:40 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 1GE5fE-0002Xg-6f for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:49:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030452AbWHROtc (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030453AbWHROtb (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:31 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:63054 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030452AbWHROtb (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:31 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([74.56.106.175]) by VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J4700L7I7UIY710@VL-MH-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:49:30 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <44E546F2.7070902@gmail.com> X-X-Sender: nico@localhost.localdomain To: A Large Angry SCM Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote: > Junio C Hamano wrote: > ... > > * "A Large Angry SCM" wrote a nice summary, "Git files data > > formats documentation". > > > > Message-ID: <44D51D47.9090700@gmail.com> > > > > With one final update by Nico yesterday, I think it is ready > > for inclusion. > > > > Does somebody care to make a patch out of it to add it to > > Documentation/technical/, maybe removing pack-format.txt there > > after making sure all it talks about is covered by the new > > documentation? > > > > I do not have enough "virginity" to spot omissions in the > > description anymore, so comments from somebody new to the > > system are very much appreciated. > > > > Two things: > > 1) I disagree with Nico's assessment that, other than his, there can not > exist any type 2 packs that have bit 6 set to mean copy from result. Care to explain why? Since this code is mine I can tell you that no official GIT version ever produced such a pack. The code to make use of that bit was quite involving and the end result wasn't great at all so I never published said code. This is also why current GIT accepts both pack version 2 and 3 without any distinction using the same code in patch-delta.c on the basis that no version 2 packs ever used that bit. Nicolas