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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 16 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index aa87756a55..1803e64e46 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -103,10 +103,24 @@ Pack file entry: <+ packed object data: If it is not DELTA, then deflated bytes (the size above is the size before compression). - If it is DELTA, then + If it is REF_DELTA, then 20-byte base object name SHA1 (the size above is the size of the delta data that follows). delta data, deflated. + If it is OFS_DELTA, then + n-byte offset (see below) interpreted as a negative + offset from the type-byte of the header of the + ofs-delta entry (the size above is the size of + the delta data that follows). + delta data, deflated. + + offset encoding: + n bytes with MSB set in all but the last one. + The offset is then the number constructed by + concatenating the lower 7 bit of each byte, and + for n >= 2 adding 2^7 + 2^14 + ... + 2^(7*(n-1)) + to the result. + = Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and |