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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/15] chunk-format: create chunk reading API
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"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
>
> Now that the chunk-format API has a consistent mechanism for writing
> file formats based on chunks, let's extend it to also parse chunk-based
> files during read.

Heads-up.  The generation-data work by Abhishek would conflict with
the way how this refactors the way the beginning offset of each
chunk is found.