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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-22 11:26:58 -0700 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-04-22 11:26:58 -0700 |
commit | 76f9bc9f53a7bc72950d8ee88e88bf41903fab74 (patch) | |
tree | 739bf070864f02f2f6ae94562cfa6f459b863ed3 /Documentation/technical | |
parent | Merge branch 'jk/doc-http-backend' into maint (diff) | |
parent | glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec (diff) | |
download | tgif-76f9bc9f53a7bc72950d8ee88e88bf41903fab74.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'ta/glossary' into maint
* ta/glossary:
glossary: improve definitions of refspec and pathspec
The name of the hash function is "SHA-1", not "SHA1"
glossary: improve description of SHA-1 related topics
glossary: remove outdated/misleading/irrelevant entries
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/shallow.txt | 4 |
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt index 45d1c517cd..3e75497a37 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-sha1-array.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ sha1-array API ============== -The sha1-array API provides storage and manipulation of sets of SHA1 +The sha1-array API provides storage and manipulation of sets of SHA-1 identifiers. The emphasis is on storage and processing efficiency, making them suitable for large lists. Note that the ordering of items is not preserved over some operations. @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Data Structures `struct sha1_array`:: - A single array of SHA1 hashes. This should be initialized by + A single array of SHA-1 hashes. This should be initialized by assignment from `SHA1_ARRAY_INIT`. The `sha1` member contains the actual data. The `nr` member contains the number of items in the set. The `alloc` and `sorted` members are used internally, diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index a37f1378d0..8e5bf60be3 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Git pack format Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable length format and is not constrained to 32-bit or anything. - - The trailer records 20-byte SHA1 checksum of all of the above. + - The trailer records 20-byte SHA-1 checksum of all of the above. == Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: @@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ Git pack format - The file is concluded with a trailer: - A copy of the 20-byte SHA1 checksum at the end of + A copy of the 20-byte SHA-1 checksum at the end of corresponding packfile. - 20-byte SHA1-checksum of all of the above. + 20-byte SHA-1-checksum of all of the above. Pack Idx file: @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ Pack file entry: <+ If it is not DELTA, then deflated bytes (the size above is the size before compression). If it is REF_DELTA, then - 20-byte base object name SHA1 (the size above is the + 20-byte base object name SHA-1 (the size above is the size of the delta data that follows). delta data, deflated. If it is OFS_DELTA, then @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Pack file entry: <+ - A 256-entry fan-out table just like v1. - - A table of sorted 20-byte SHA1 object names. These are + - A table of sorted 20-byte SHA-1 object names. These are packed together without offset values to reduce the cache footprint of the binary search for a specific object name. @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ Pack file entry: <+ - The same trailer as a v1 pack file: - A copy of the 20-byte SHA1 checksum at the end of + A copy of the 20-byte SHA-1 checksum at the end of corresponding packfile. - 20-byte SHA1-checksum of all of the above. + 20-byte SHA-1-checksum of all of the above. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt index dbdf7ba9c8..8b7ae1c140 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Ah, grasshopper! And thus the enlightenment begins anew. <linus> The "magic" is actually in theory totally arbitrary. ANY order will give you a working pack, but no, it's not - ordered by SHA1. + ordered by SHA-1. Before talking about the ordering for the sliding delta window, let's talk about the recency order. That's more diff --git a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt index ea2f69faf5..5183b15422 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/shallow.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ repo, and therefore grafts are introduced pretending that these commits have no parents. ********************************************************* -The basic idea is to write the SHA1s of shallow commits into +The basic idea is to write the SHA-1s of shallow commits into $GIT_DIR/shallow, and handle its contents like the contents of $GIT_DIR/info/grafts (with the difference that shallow cannot contain parent information). @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ even the config, since the user should not touch that file at all (even throughout development of the shallow clone, it was never manually edited!). -Each line contains exactly one SHA1. When read, a commit_graft +Each line contains exactly one SHA-1. When read, a commit_graft will be constructed, which has nr_parent < 0 to make it easier to discern from user provided grafts. |