Hello, On Mon 04 Aug 2025 at 07:25pm +02, Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
> Hi Sean, > > On Mon Aug 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM CEST, Sean Whitton wrote: >> Can we say that the .delta file must represent an empty change (or >> equivalent), since we're not going to support actual deltas? >> >> I think your later text implies this but it would be easier to read if >> we said something here too. > > Well, a .delta file represents a binary diff, so an empty binary diff > would result in no modifications to the tar file at all. We want to > support deltas which change things like the stored order of files in the > tarball, or empty directories. So I don't really know how to say this > other than "the resulting tarball must be treesame to the named git > tree". > > Maybe something like "the .delta file must not contain changes to the > tarball contents, except for empty directories". Right, okay. Then I agree with Ian that what you already say is enough. -- Sean Whitton
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