Linus Torvalds wrote: > The pack-file format is slightly different from the traditional git > object format, in that it has a much denser binary header encoding. > > The traditional format uses an ASCII string with type and length > information, which is somewhat wasteful. And in the traditional format type and length are compressed whereas in the pack-file format they are not. > This should probably be applied to the main tree asap if we think > this is at all a worthwhile exercise. But somebody should verify that I > got the format right first! Sorry but see above. Regards Stephan - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html