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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/reftable.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt index b39c69da8c..f2221d2b44 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/multi-pack-index.txt @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ and their offsets into multiple packfiles. It contains: ** An offset within the jth packfile for the object. * If large offsets are required, we use another list of large offsets similar to version 2 pack-indexes. +- An optional list of objects in pseudo-pack order (used with MIDX bitmaps). Thus, we can provide O(log N) lookup time for any number of packfiles. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index 8d2f42f29e..6d3efb7d16 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -376,6 +376,11 @@ CHUNK DATA: [Optional] Object Large Offsets (ID: {'L', 'O', 'F', 'F'}) 8-byte offsets into large packfiles. + [Optional] Bitmap pack order (ID: {'R', 'I', 'D', 'X'}) + A list of MIDX positions (one per object in the MIDX, num_objects in + total, each a 4-byte unsigned integer in network byte order), sorted + according to their relative bitmap/pseudo-pack positions. + TRAILER: Index checksum of the above contents. @@ -456,9 +461,5 @@ In short, a MIDX's pseudo-pack is the de-duplicated concatenation of objects in packs stored by the MIDX, laid out in pack order, and the packs arranged in MIDX order (with the preferred pack coming first). -Finally, note that the MIDX's reverse index is not stored as a chunk in -the multi-pack-index itself. This is done because the reverse index -includes the checksum of the pack or MIDX to which it belongs, which -makes it impossible to write in the MIDX. To avoid races when rewriting -the MIDX, a MIDX reverse index includes the MIDX's checksum in its -filename (e.g., `multi-pack-index-xyz.rev`). +The MIDX's reverse index is stored in the optional 'RIDX' chunk within +the MIDX itself. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt index d7c3b645cf..6a67cc4174 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Obj block format Object blocks are optional. Writers may choose to omit object blocks, especially if readers will not use the object name to ref mapping. -Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-32 object name keys, mapping to +Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-31 byte object name keys, mapping to ref blocks containing references pointing to that object directly, or as the peeled value of an annotated tag. Like ref blocks, object blocks use the file's standard block size. The abbreviation length is available in |