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authorLibravatar SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>2019-01-19 21:21:13 +0100
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-01-22 11:33:46 -0800
commit5af7417bd869d935715a56b2ccdee04d3a79a328 (patch)
tree920c87fb83f20864043acb3a3ee7a7f37f676d9b /Documentation/technical
parentcommit-graph write: use pack order when finding commits (diff)
downloadtgif-5af7417bd869d935715a56b2ccdee04d3a79a328.tar.xz
commit-graph: rename "large edges" to "extra edges"
The optional 'Large Edge List' chunk of the commit graph file stores parent information for commits with more than two parents, and the names of most of the macros, variables, struct fields, and functions related to this chunk contain the term "large edges", e.g. write_graph_chunk_large_edges(). However, it's not a really great term, as the edges to the second and subsequent parents stored in this chunk are not any larger than the edges to the first and second parents stored in the "main" 'Commit Data' chunk. It's the number of edges, IOW number of parents, that is larger compared to non-merge and "regular" two-parent merge commits. And indeed, two functions in 'commit-graph.c' have a local variable called 'num_extra_edges' that refer to the same thing, and this "extra edges" term is much better at describing these edges. So let's rename all these references to "large edges" in macro, variable, function, etc. names to "extra edges". There is a GRAPH_OCTOPUS_EDGES_NEEDED macro as well; for the sake of consistency rename it to GRAPH_EXTRA_EDGES_NEEDED. We can do so safely without causing any incompatibility issues, because the term "large edges" doesn't come up in the file format itself in any form (the chunk's magic is {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}, there is no 'L' in there), but only in the specification text. The string "large edges", however, does come up in the output of 'git commit-graph read' and in tests looking at its input, but that command is explicitly documented as debugging aid, so we can change its output and the affected tests safely. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
index cc0474ba3e..16452a0504 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ CHUNK DATA:
of the ith commit. Stores value 0x7000000 if no parent in that
position. If there are more than two parents, the second value
has its most-significant bit on and the other bits store an array
- position into the Large Edge List chunk.
+ position into the Extra Edge List chunk.
* The next 8 bytes store the generation number of the commit and
the commit time in seconds since EPOCH. The generation number
uses the higher 30 bits of the first 4 bytes, while the commit
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ CHUNK DATA:
2 bits of the lowest byte, storing the 33rd and 34th bit of the
commit time.
- Large Edge List (ID: {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}) [Optional]
+ Extra Edge List (ID: {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}) [Optional]
This list of 4-byte values store the second through nth parents for
all octopus merges. The second parent value in the commit data stores
an array position within this list along with the most-significant bit