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From: Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: How DELTA objects values work and are calculated
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:48:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFd4kYBX+HrLxbga=VJgC5WjyeDZEznm2UCL+HF8A1YKVo3Trw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I'm having trouble understanding how OBJ_REF_DELTA and OBJ_REF_DELTA
(deltas) work in git. Where does git calculate the sha1 hash values
when doing "git index-pack" in builtin/index-pack.c. I think my lack
of understanding of the code is compounded the fact that I do not
understand what the two object types are.

From tracing the code starting from index-pack, all non-delta object
type hashes are calculated in index-pack.c:1131 (parse_pack_objects).
However, when the function ends, the delta objects hash values are set
to all 0's.

My questions are:
A) How do Delta objects work?
B) Where and how are the sha1 values calculated?

I have read Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt, but am still not clear.

Thank you!
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Farhan Khan
PGP Fingerprint: B28D 2726 E2BC A97E 3854 5ABE 9A9F 00BC D525 16EE

             reply	other threads:[~2019-01-05  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-05  2:48 Farhan Khan [this message]
2019-01-05  4:46 ` How DELTA objects values work and are calculated Duy Nguyen
2019-01-05 22:32   ` Farhan Khan
2019-01-06  2:32     ` Duy Nguyen

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