Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. :-) Will replace your [1/2] still in "pu". - 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