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.
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