The original interface for sha1_object_info() takes an object name and
gives back a type and its size (the latter is given only when it was
asked). The new interface wraps its implementation and exposes a bit
more pieces of information that the interface used to discard, namely:
- where the object is stored (loose? cached? packed?)
- if packed, where in which packfile?
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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* In the earlier round, this used u.pack.delta to record the length of
the delta chain, but the caller is not necessarily interested in the
length of the delta chain per-se, but may only want to know if it is a
delta against another object or is stored as a deflated data. Calling
packed_object_info_detail() involves walking the reverse index chain to
compute the store size of the object and is unnecessarily expensive.
We could resurrect the code if a new caller wants to know, but I doubt
it.