Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remove unused index tracking code.

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> writes:

> This patch in particular creates additional restrictions on pack 
> files that were not present before.  And I don't think this is a good 
> thing.
>
> This patch impose an ordering on REF_DELTA objects that doesn't need to 
> exist.  Say for example that an OFS_DELTA depends on an object which is 
> a REF_DELTA object.  With this patch any pack with the base for that 
> REF_DELTA stored after the OFS_DELTA object will be broken.
>
> And to really do thin pack fixing properly we really want to just append 
> missing base objects at the end of the pack which falls in the broken 
> case above.
>
> So this is a NAK from me.

I agree.

By the way, it is rather rare for us to see a NAK on this list.
I'd welcome to see more of them ;-).



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