Re: [PATCH 37/38] pack v4: introduce "escape hatches" in the name and path indexes

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

On Thu, 5 Sep 2013, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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If the path or name index is zero, this means the entry data is to be
found inline rather than being located in the dictionary table. This is
there to allow easy completion of thin packs without having to add new
table entries which would have required a full rewrite of the pack data.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>

I'm now dropping this patch.  Please also remove this from your 
documentation patch.

Well... I couldn't resist another little change that has been nagging me 
for a while.

Both the author and committer time stamps are very closely related most 
of the time.  So the committer time stamp is now encoded as a difference 
against the author time stamp with the LSB indicating a negative 
difference.

On git.git this saves 0.3% on the pack size.  Not much, but still 
impressive for only a time stamp.


Nicolas