On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> But what I care about is that when git-unpack-objects sees that it wants a
> zero-byte object, and asks zlib to unpack it, zlib will not actually use
> the bytes it wrote - it will just say "oh, you wanted zero bytes, here's
> zero bytes". Which means that the stream handling gets upset.
Actually, never mind. zlib does exactly the right thing, and eats the 8
bytes of header that it wrote for "empty". The real culprit was that
git-unpack-objects incorrectly made that zero a special case on reading,
but not writing.
So just ignore me. zlib actually does what I expected it to do, even for
the zero case.
Linus
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