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2018-07-18Merge branch 'ds/commit-graph'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+5
Docfix. * ds/commit-graph: commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistencies
2018-06-28commit-graph: fix documentation inconsistenciesLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-5/+5
The commit-graph feature shipped in Git 2.18 has some inconsistencies in the constants used by the implementation and specified by the format document. The commit data chunk uses the key "CDAT" in the file format, but was previously documented to say "CGET". The commit data chunk stores commit parents using two 32-bit fields that typically store the integer position of the parent in the list of commit ids within the commit-graph file. When a parent does not exist, we had documented the value 0xffffffff, but implemented the value 0x70000000. This swap is easy to correct in the documentation, but unfortunately reduces the number of commits that we can store in the commit-graph. Update that estimate, too. Reported-by: Grant Welch <gwelch925@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-22Documentation: spelling and grammar fixesLibravatar Ville Skyttä1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-02commit-graph: add format documentLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+97
Add document specifying the binary format for commit graphs. This format allows for: * New versions. * New hash functions and hash lengths. * Optional extensions. Basic header information is followed by a binary table of contents into "chunks" that include: * An ordered list of commit object IDs. * A 256-entry fanout into that list of OIDs. * A list of metadata for the commits. * A list of "large edges" to enable octopus merges. The format automatically includes two parent positions for every commit. This favors speed over space, since using only one position per commit would cause an extra level of indirection for every merge commit. (Octopus merges suffer from this indirection, but they are very rare.) Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>