From c915accf7d2a36ca1f323e2f02e2df7375e815f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emery Hemingway <ehmry@posteo.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:29:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Zero length byte sequences are fine

---
 preserves.nimble  | 2 +-
 src/preserves.nim | 2 --
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/preserves.nimble b/preserves.nimble
index d0a1060..4aea90c 100644
--- a/preserves.nimble
+++ b/preserves.nimble
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Package
 
-version = "20230913"
+version = "20230914"
 author        = "Emery Hemingway"
 description   = "data model and serialization format"
 license       = "Unlicense"
diff --git a/src/preserves.nim b/src/preserves.nim
index afde44f..a1f1d05 100644
--- a/src/preserves.nim
+++ b/src/preserves.nim
@@ -674,8 +674,6 @@ proc decodePreserves*(s: Stream; E = void): Preserve[E] =
       let n = s.readData(addr data[0], data.len)
       if n != data.len:
         raise newException(IOError, "short read")
-    else:
-      raiseAssert "readVarint returned zero"
     result = Preserve[E](kind: pkByteString, bytes: data)
   of 0xb3:
     var data = newString(s.readVarint())