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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop inflating the whole SHA1 file only to check size.
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Using the new unpack_sha1_file_partial() function, stop
> inflating the whole SHA1 file when rename detector wants to know
> only the filesize.

Beware.  If you have delta objects you'll get the size of the delta 
itself and not the final object size, unless you recurse until a non 
delta object is found.


Nicolas