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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 41 |
3 files changed, 45 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt index 8b001de0db..30fc0e9c93 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-diff.txt @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ Calling sequence ---------------- * Prepare `struct diff_options` to record the set of diff options, and - then call `diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This sets up - the vanilla default. + then call `repo_diff_setup()` to initialize this structure. This + sets up the vanilla default. * Fill in the options structure to specify desired output format, rename detection, etc. `diff_opt_parse()` can be used to parse options given diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt index 55b878ade8..03f9ea6ac4 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-revision-walking.txt @@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ revision list. Functions --------- -`init_revisions`:: +`repo_init_revisions`:: - Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The second + Initialize a rev_info structure with default values. The third parameter may be NULL or can be prefix path, and then the `.prefix` variable will be set to it. This is typically the first function you want to call when you want to deal with a revision list. After calling diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index db3572626b..7c4d67aa6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -314,3 +314,44 @@ The remaining data of each directory block is grouped by type: - An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry is not CE_FSMONITOR_VALID. + +== End of Index Entry + + The End of Index Entry (EOIE) is used to locate the end of the variable + length index entries and the begining of the extensions. Code can take + advantage of this to quickly locate the index extensions without having + to parse through all of the index entries. + + Because it must be able to be loaded before the variable length cache + entries and other index extensions, this extension must be written last. + The signature for this extension is { 'E', 'O', 'I', 'E' }. + + The extension consists of: + + - 32-bit offset to the end of the index entries + + - 160-bit SHA-1 over the extension types and their sizes (but not + their contents). E.g. if we have "TREE" extension that is N-bytes + long, "REUC" extension that is M-bytes long, followed by "EOIE", + then the hash would be: + + SHA-1("TREE" + <binary representation of N> + + "REUC" + <binary representation of M>) + +== Index Entry Offset Table + + The Index Entry Offset Table (IEOT) is used to help address the CPU + cost of loading the index by enabling multi-threading the process of + converting cache entries from the on-disk format to the in-memory format. + The signature for this extension is { 'I', 'E', 'O', 'T' }. + + The extension consists of: + + - 32-bit version (currently 1) + + - A number of index offset entries each consisting of: + + - 32-bit offset from the begining of the file to the first cache entry + in this block of entries. + + - 32-bit count of cache entries in this block |