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pack-objects: keep track of
pack_start
for each reuse pack
When reusing objects from a pack, we keep track of a set of one or more `reused_chunk`s, corresponding to sections of one or more object(s) from a source pack that we are reusing. Each chunk contains two pieces of information: - the offset of the first object in the source pack (relative to the beginning of the source pack) - the difference between that offset, and the corresponding offset in the pack we're generating The purpose of keeping track of these is so that we can patch an OFS_DELTAs that cross over a section of the reuse pack that we didn't take. For instance, consider a hypothetical pack as shown below: (chunk #2) __________... / / +--------+---------+-------------------+---------+ ... | <base> | <other> | (unused) | <delta> | ... +--------+---------+-------------------+---------+ \ / \______________/ (chunk #1) Suppose that we are sending objects "base", "other", and "delta", and that the "delta" object is stored as an OFS_DELTA, and that its base is "base". If we don't send any objects in the "(unused)" range, we can't copy the delta'd object directly, since its delta offset includes a range of the pack that we didn't copy, so we have to account for that difference when patching and reassembling the delta. In order to compute this value correctly, we need to know not only where we are in the packfile we're assembling (with `hashfile_total(f)`) but also the position of the first byte of the packfile that we are currently reusing. Currently, this works just fine, since when reusing only a single pack those two values are always identical (because verbatim reuse is the first thing pack-objects does when enabled after writing the pack header). But when reusing multiple packs which have one or more gaps, we'll need to account for these two values diverging. Together, these two allow us to compute the reused chunk's offset difference relative to the start of the reused pack, as desired. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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