Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > With so little similarity, there is no reason for us to mimick their > "folding" rule. Agreed. I'd just lazily guessed it might be 822 (was also thinking of Debian package headers), but certainly shouldn't have glossed over the missing colon (for example) -- might be worth making sure the rules described are covered in the technical docs, if they're not already, and then perhaps refer to them in the section we're adjusting. > We limit to the SP and not LWP for another reason. Because the > exact byte sequence in the object (including the header part of > "commit" and "tag" objects) determines the name of the object Ahh, right, of course. > we would needlessly create many variants of the "same" commit, which > is not ideal. Indeed. Thanks -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2011-07-10 E6A9 DA3C C9FD 1FF8 C676 D2C4 C0F0 39E9 ED1B 597A GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4
