On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As you have "0-index" escape hatch for SHA-1 table, but no similar > escape hatch for the people's name table, I can see why it may be > cumbersome to fix a thin pack by only appending to a received > packfile and updating a few header fields, though. We also need an escape hatch for path name table. But what if we store appended objects in OBJ_REF_DELTA format where base ref is empty tree/commit and cached by sha1_file.c? We won't need to update dictionary tables. Parsing is a bit ugly though (e.g. v3 tree with v2 base) but we have to deal with that anyway because people can have v2 and v3 packs mixed in. -- Duy -- 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