Re: Unresolved issues #3

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote:

> Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, A Large Angry SCM wrote:
> ...
> >>
> >> 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.
> 
> That doesn't prove the non-existence of other code to do it.

So?  If the official and primary code for GIT doesn't support it, what 
is the point?  I'm telling you that if such packs exist they will simply 
barf with all official GIT releases later than v1.1.6 making your 
argument pointless.

I don't mind you documenting that historic intent for a bit that was 
never officially used, but at least let's document it right.


Nicolas