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authorPeter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>2008-04-06 22:51:49 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-04-06 17:22:46 -0700
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Add description of OFS_DELTA to the pack format description
Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk> Acked-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -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