Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > >> I think Junio and Nico have already agreed to change the base SHA1 >> to be an offset instead; I am not in favor of that, at least not yet, especially I haven't thought about the implications of that on streaming unpacker. I do not have much objections about changing base-delta order, though. > Of course, if we change the pack/index-file format for other reasons, then > we should obviously fix the 4G issue at the same time, but were there > actually any real other reasons at this point? Not really, from my point of view. Probably 70% of motivation of the new \377tOc index format originally came from wanting to have "where is the end of this object" which turned out to be unneeded; and by making repack easier to use I think we do not have to solve 4G issue either. There is only one case that might need a single pack that can be indexed with 4G offset: initial clone or repack of a huge repository. -- VGER BF report: U 0.788936 - To unsubscribe from this list: 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