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Fri, 3 Oct 2025 13:07:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: "brian m. carlson" Cc: , Patrick Steinhardt Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation In-Reply-To: <20251002223855.1022847-5-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> (brian m. carlson's message of "Thu, 2 Oct 2025 22:38:50 +0000") References: <20250919010911.649831-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20251002223855.1022847-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> <20251002223855.1022847-5-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:07:47 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain "brian m. carlson" writes: > +=== Object encoding > + > +Unlike loose objects, packed objects do not have a prefix containing the type, > +size, and a NUL byte. These are not necessary because they can be determined by > +the n-byte type and length that prefixes the data and so they are omitted from > +the compressed and deltified data. > + > +The computation of the object ID still uses this prefix, however. "however" -> "by reconstructing it from the type/length data as needed"? Other than that, the new text reads very well. Thanks.