Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 12/3/2020 5:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Now that the chunk-format API has a consistent mechanism for writing >>> file formats based on chunks, let's extend it to also parse chunk-based >>> files during read. >> >> Heads-up. The generation-data work by Abhishek would conflict with >> the way how this refactors the way the beginning offset of each >> chunk is found. > > Right! I should have checked against 'seen'. Abhishek's work should > take precedence and I can adapt on top of his topic. For now, feel > free to keep this topic out of 'seen' while we address the worth > of the topic (re: René's concerns). Sure. We may want to do [PATCH 11/15] even if the "worth of the topic" discussion ends up negative, though. Thanks.