Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > However if the caller consumes the pack header from the input stream > > then its no longer available for unpack-objects or index-pack --stdin, > > both of which need the version and object count to process the stream. > > > > This change introduces --pack_header=ver,cnt as a command line option > > that the caller can supply to indicate it has already consumed the > > pack header and what version and object count were found in that > > header. As this option is only meant for low level applications > > such as receive-pack we are not documenting it at this time. > > This breaks index-pack, and unpack-objects with OBJ_OFS_DELTA, if > --pack-header is used. The header is not accounted in the pack's offset > and therefore every object's offset is wrong. > > What about this patch instead? This makes things much simpler IMHO. Agreed. The idea you are using here came to me in my sleep last night; I didn't have time to look at it until now however. You just beat me to posting it. :-) -- Shawn. - 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