[PATCH] Fix unpack-objects for header length information.

[git.git] / pack-objects.c

diff --git a/pack-objects.c b/pack-objects.c
index d1e62dc..36f515b 100644 (file)
--- a/pack-objects.c
+++ b/pack-objects.c
@@ -97,9 +97,9 @@ static unsigned long write_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry *entry
                die("object %s size inconsistency (%lu vs %lu)", sha1_to_hex(entry->sha1), size, entry->size);
 
        /*
-        * The object header is a byte of 'type' followed by four bytes of
-        * length, except for deltas that has the 20 bytes of delta sha
-        * instead.
+        * The object header is a byte of 'type' followed by zero or
+        * more bytes of length.  For deltas, the 20 bytes of delta sha1
+        * follows that.
         */
        obj_type = entry->type;
        if (entry->delta) {