On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Jeff King wrote: > There are basically two solutions: > > 1. Add a single-bit flag for "I am 0-padded in the real data". We > could probably even squeeze it into the same integer. > > 2. Have a "classic" section of the pack that stores the raw object > bytes. For objects which do not match our expectations, store them > raw instead of in v4 format. They will not get the benefit of v4 > optimizations, but if they are the minority of objects, that will > only end up with a slight slow-down.
That is basically what I just suggested. But instead of a special section, simply using a special object type number would do it. I'm even wondering if that couldn't be used for fixing a thin pack instead of the special provision I just added last night. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
