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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt | 2 |
3 files changed, 32 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt index 2e2e7c10c6..5a60bbfa7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-parse-options.txt @@ -232,9 +232,9 @@ There are some macros to easily define options: will be overwritten, so this should only be used for options where the last one specified on the command line wins. -`OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV(short, long, &argv_array_var, arg_str, description, flags)`:: +`OPT_PASSTHRU_ARGV(short, long, &strvec_var, arg_str, description, flags)`:: Introduce an option where all instances of it on the command-line will - be reconstructed into an argv_array. This is useful when you need to + be reconstructed into a strvec. This is useful when you need to pass the command-line option, which can be specified multiple times, to another command. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt index 0e828151a5..bac558d049 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/bundle-format.txt @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ The Git bundle format is a format that represents both refs and Git objects. We will use ABNF notation to define the Git bundle format. See protocol-common.txt for the details. +A v2 bundle looks like this: + ---- bundle = signature *prerequisite *reference LF pack signature = "# v2 git bundle" LF @@ -18,9 +20,28 @@ reference = obj-id SP refname LF pack = ... ; packfile ---- +A v3 bundle looks like this: + +---- +bundle = signature *capability *prerequisite *reference LF pack +signature = "# v3 git bundle" LF + +capability = "@" key ["=" value] LF +prerequisite = "-" obj-id SP comment LF +comment = *CHAR +reference = obj-id SP refname LF +key = 1*(ALPHA / DIGIT / "-") +value = *(%01-09 / %0b-FF) + +pack = ... ; packfile +---- + == Semantics -A Git bundle consists of three parts. +A Git bundle consists of several parts. + +* "Capabilities", which are only in the v3 format, indicate functionality that + the bundle requires to be read properly. * "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 @@ -46,3 +67,10 @@ put any string here. The reader of the bundle MUST ignore the comment. 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. + +== Capabilities + +Because there is no opportunity for negotiation, unknown capabilities cause 'git +bundle' to abort. The only known capability is `object-format`, which specifies +the hash algorithm in use, and can take the same values as the +`extensions.objectFormat` configuration value. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt index 1beef17182..440541045d 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ the body into "chunks" and provide a binary lookup table at the beginning of the body. The header includes certain values, such as number of chunks and hash type. -All 4-byte numbers are in network order. +All multi-byte numbers are in network byte order. HEADER: |