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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Linus Torvalds	d38c3721a1	git-pack-objects: mark the delta packing with a 'D'. When writing a delta, we take the real type from the object we're doing the delta against, and just write a 'D' as the type of the current object.	20 years ago
Linus Torvalds	49397104f2	git-pack-objects: fix typo ("<" should be "=")	20 years ago
Linus Torvalds	c323ac7d9c	git-pack-objects: create a packed object representation. This is kind of like a tar-ball for a set of objects, ready to be shipped off to another end. Alternatively, you could use is as a packed representation of the object database directly, if you changed "read_sha1_file()" to read these kinds of packs. The latter is partiularly useful to generate a "packed history", ie you could pack up your old history efficiently, but still have it available (at a performance hit, of course). I haven't actually written an unpacker yet, so the end result has not been verified in any way yet. I obviously always write bug-free code, so it just has to work, no?	20 years ago

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Linus Torvalds

d38c3721a1

git-pack-objects: mark the delta packing with a 'D'.

When writing a delta, we take the real type from the object we're
doing the delta against, and just write a 'D' as the type of the
current object.

20 years ago

Linus Torvalds

49397104f2

git-pack-objects: fix typo

("<" should be "=")

20 years ago

Linus Torvalds

c323ac7d9c

git-pack-objects: create a packed object representation.

This is kind of like a tar-ball for a set of objects, ready to be
shipped off to another end.  Alternatively, you could use is as a packed
representation of the object database directly, if you changed
"read_sha1_file()" to read these kinds of packs.

The latter is partiularly useful to generate a "packed history", ie you
could pack up your old history efficiently, but still have it available
(at a performance hit, of course).

I haven't actually written an unpacker yet, so the end result has not
been verified in any way yet.  I obviously always write bug-free code,
so it just has to work, no?

20 years ago

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