On Mon, 2020-02-10 at 09:18 -0500, Derrick Stolee wrote: > > Thank you for finding this doc bug. This is a very subtle point, > and you have described it very clearly. I was going back and forth on the wording a bit, glad I found something that you think is a good description :) Are you familiar with the multi-pack-index and how it's used, by any chance? I came here from bup (https://github.com/bup/bup/) and needed a way to store the offset to find objects in "pure bup", today it only stores object *presence* and *pack* in its multi-index, but not the offset. However, it seems to do a bit better in terms of not requiring a single multi-index, but instead storing it in midx-*.midx files and multiple can describe the repository state. Why wasn't something like that done for git as well? It's a bit annoying to have to recreate the full midx every time a pack file is added, and searching in two or three midx files wouldn't really be a big deal? Anyway, that's just an aside, but during all this investigation I stumbled across this small inconsistency - I'm glad the docs exist at all! :-) Thanks, johannes
