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+// Package binary implements sintax-sugar functions on top of the standard
+// library binary package
+package binary
+
+import (
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"io"
+
+	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4/core"
+)
+
+// Read reads structured binary data from r into data. Bytes are read and
+// decoded in BigEndian order
+// https://golang.org/pkg/encoding/binary/#Read
+func Read(r io.Reader, data ...interface{}) error {
+	for _, v := range data {
+		if err := binary.Read(r, binary.BigEndian, v); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
+// ReadUntil reads from r untin delim is found
+func ReadUntil(r io.Reader, delim byte) ([]byte, error) {
+	var buf [1]byte
+	value := make([]byte, 0, 16)
+	for {
+		if _, err := r.Read(buf[:]); err != nil {
+			if err == io.EOF {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		if buf[0] == delim {
+			return value, nil
+		}
+
+		value = append(value, buf[0])
+	}
+}
+
+// ReadVariableWidthInt reads and returns an int in Git VLQ special format:
+//
+// Ordinary VLQ has some redundancies, example:  the number 358 can be
+// encoded as the 2-octet VLQ 0x8166 or the 3-octet VLQ 0x808166 or the
+// 4-octet VLQ 0x80808166 and so forth.
+//
+// To avoid these redundancies, the VLQ format used in Git removes this
+// prepending redundancy and extends the representable range of shorter
+// VLQs by adding an offset to VLQs of 2 or more octets in such a way
+// that the lowest possible value for such an (N+1)-octet VLQ becomes
+// exactly one more than the maximum possible value for an N-octet VLQ.
+// In particular, since a 1-octet VLQ can store a maximum value of 127,
+// the minimum 2-octet VLQ (0x8000) is assigned the value 128 instead of
+// 0. Conversely, the maximum value of such a 2-octet VLQ (0xff7f) is
+// 16511 instead of just 16383. Similarly, the minimum 3-octet VLQ
+// (0x808000) has a value of 16512 instead of zero, which means
+// that the maximum 3-octet VLQ (0xffff7f) is 2113663 instead of
+// just 2097151.  And so forth.
+//
+// This is how the offset is saved in C:
+//
+//     dheader[pos] = ofs & 127;
+//     while (ofs >>= 7)
+//         dheader[--pos] = 128 | (--ofs & 127);
+//
+func ReadVariableWidthInt(r io.Reader) (int64, error) {
+	var c byte
+	if err := Read(r, &c); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	var v = int64(c & maskLength)
+	for c&maskContinue > 0 {
+		v++
+		if err := Read(r, &c); err != nil {
+			return 0, err
+		}
+
+		v = (v << lengthBits) + int64(c&maskLength)
+	}
+
+	return v, nil
+}
+
+const (
+	maskContinue = uint8(128) // 1000 000
+	maskLength   = uint8(127) // 0111 1111
+	lengthBits   = uint8(7)   // subsequent bytes has 7 bits to store the length
+)
+
+// ReadUint32 reads 4 bytes and returns them as a Big ndian uint32
+func ReadUint32(r io.Reader) (uint32, error) {
+	var v uint32
+	if err := binary.Read(r, binary.BigEndian, &v); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return v, nil
+}
+
+// ReadUint16 reads 2 bytes and returns them as a BigEndian uint16
+func ReadUint16(r io.Reader) (uint16, error) {
+	var v uint16
+	if err := binary.Read(r, binary.BigEndian, &v); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return v, nil
+}
+
+// ReadHash reads a core.Hash from r
+func ReadHash(r io.Reader) (core.Hash, error) {
+	var h core.Hash
+	if err := binary.Read(r, binary.BigEndian, h[:]); err != nil {
+		return core.ZeroHash, err
+	}
+
+	return h, nil
+}