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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: pack file object size question
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:14:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181216221457.GH75890@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFd4kYCHefqRsiFK=K7MHp=MTwOBXB5979WobEm3w1J5q1bZ0w@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

Farhan Khan wrote:

> I am trying to write an implementation of "git index-pack" and having
> a bit of trouble with understanding the ".pack" format. Specifically,
> I am having trouble figuring out the boundary between two objects in
> the pack file.

Have you seen Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt?  If so, do you
have ideas for improving it?

Thanks,
Jonathan

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-16 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-16 21:52 pack file object size question Farhan Khan
2018-12-16 22:14 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2018-12-16 23:36   ` Farhan Khan
2018-12-17  0:14     ` Jonathan Nieder
2018-12-17 15:31       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-12-17 19:39 ` Jeff King

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