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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 57d6f915b1..7324154838 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -161,8 +161,9 @@ GIT index format this span of index as a tree. An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having - -1 in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no object name - and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + a negative number in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no + object name and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + When writing an invalid entry, -1 should always be used as entry_count. The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the |