Re: [PATCH 1/8] git-repack --max-pack-size: Add new file statics and struct fields

Dana How [off-list ref] writes:

... The fields
in object_entry are re-arranged & shrunk to save memory.

Is the driving principle "place fields with coarser alignment
requirements first in the struct"?  I noticed you have a handful
pointers and an off_t after two short fields.  Two shorts would
be likely to make the next field aligned suitable for an int,
but (1) if we ever add another short later that would not be
true anymore, and (2) I suspect a pointer and an off_t can be
longer than an int but int would never be longer than them.