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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt
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+= Git bundle v2 format
+
+The Git bundle format is a format that represents both refs and Git objects.
+
+== Format
+
+We will use ABNF notation to define the Git bundle format. See
+protocol-common.txt for the details.
+
+----
+bundle    = signature *prerequisite *reference LF pack
+signature = "# v2 git bundle" LF
+
+prerequisite = "-" obj-id SP comment LF
+comment      = *CHAR
+reference    = obj-id SP refname LF
+
+pack         = ... ; packfile
+----
+
+== Semantics
+
+A Git bundle consists of three parts.
+
+* "Prerequisites" lists the objects that are NOT included in the bundle and the
+  reader of the bundle MUST already have, in order to use the data in the
+  bundle. The objects stored in the bundle may refer to prerequisite objects and
+  anything reachable from them (e.g. a tree object in the bundle can reference
+  a blob that is reachable from a prerequisite) and/or expressed as a delta
+  against prerequisite objects.
+
+* "References" record the tips of the history graph, iow, what the reader of the
+  bundle CAN "git fetch" from it.
+
+* "Pack" is the pack data stream "git fetch" would send, if you fetch from a
+  repository that has the references recorded in the "References" above into a
+  repository that has references pointing at the objects listed in
+  "Prerequisites" above.
+
+In the bundle format, there can be a comment following a prerequisite obj-id.
+This is a comment and it has no specific meaning. The writer of the bundle MAY
+put any string here. The reader of the bundle MUST ignore the comment.
+
+=== Note on the shallow clone and a Git bundle
+
+Note that the prerequisites does not represent a shallow-clone boundary. The
+semantics of the prerequisites and the shallow-clone boundaries are different,
+and the Git bundle v2 format cannot represent a shallow clone repository.
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
index cab5bdd2ff..d3a142c652 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
@@ -315,10 +315,11 @@ CHUNK DATA:
 	    Stores two 4-byte values for every object.
 	    1: The pack-int-id for the pack storing this object.
 	    2: The offset within the pack.
-		If all offsets are less than 2^31, then the large offset chunk
+		If all offsets are less than 2^32, then the large offset chunk
 		will not exist and offsets are stored as in IDX v1.
 		If there is at least one offset value larger than 2^32-1, then
-		the large offset chunk must exist. If the large offset chunk
+		the large offset chunk must exist, and offsets larger than
+		2^31-1 must be stored in it instead. If the large offset chunk
 		exists and the 31st bit is on, then removing that bit reveals
 		the row in the large offsets containing the 8-byte offset of
 		this object.