On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> writes: > > > Blob and tag objects have no particular changes except for their object > > header. > > > > Delta objects are also copied as is, except for their delta base reference > > which is converted to the new way as used elsewhere in pack v4 encoding > > i.e. an index into the SHA1 table or a literal SHA1 prefixed by 0 if not > > found in the table (see add_sha1_ref). This is true for both REF_DELTA > > as well as OFS_DELTA. > > > > Object payload is validated against the recorded CRC32 in the source > > pack index file when possible. > > > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@fluxnic.net> > > --- > > The title somewhat confused me until I realized that this series is > building a program that would convert existing data from a single > pack into packv4 format, not a "pack-objects --pack-verison=4".
I initially started with extensions to pack-objects but that quickly became a big hassle to keep things working while experimenting. So this tool is just a straight pack converter which in itself turned out to be quite complex already. Eventually its code could be merged into pack-objects. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
