On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > There are bigger reasons to _never_ allow packs to contain deltas to > outside of themselves: > > - there's no point. Remember what I said earlier: "If there are advantages to do so then maybe." So far there are none. > You could end up with a situation where you get two packs from two > different sources, and they contain deltas to _each_other_, and you > have no way of actually generating the object itself any more. To me this is the real killer. Shawn was talking about a different issue though. Nicolas - 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