On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 04:52:13PM -0500, Farhan Khan wrote: > It seems that there is a 12 byte header (signature, version, number of > objects), then it immediately jumps into each individual object. The > object consists of the object header, then the zlib deflated object, > followed by a SHA1 of the above. Is this accurate? Others discussed the length confusion, but I wanted to point out one more thing: the packfile does not contain the sha1 of each object. That is computed by index-pack (but there is a sha1 of the contents of the _entire_ packfile). A bit error on the wire will be detected by the whole-pack sha1. A bit error on the sender's disk generally be detected by zlib, but not always. The ultimate check that the receiver does is make sure it has all of the expected objects by walking the object graph from the proposed ref updates. Any object which has an undetected bit error will appear to be be missing (as well as any object that the sender actually just failed to send). -Peff
