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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html