Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:07:47 -0700

"brian m. carlson" <[email-masked]> writes:

> +=== Object encoding
> +
> +Unlike loose objects, packed objects do not have a prefix containing the type,
> +size, and a NUL byte. These are not necessary because they can be determined by
> +the n-byte type and length that prefixes the data and so they are omitted from
> +the compressed and deltified data.
> +
> +The computation of the object ID still uses this prefix, however.

"however" -> "by reconstructing it from the type/length data as
needed"?

Other than that, the new text reads very well.

Thanks.