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authorShawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2006-05-29 03:17:18 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-30 23:09:02 -0700
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Improved pack format documentation.
While trying to implement a pack reader in Java I was mislead by some facts listed in this documentation as well as found a few details to be missing about the pack header. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,13 @@ GIT pack format
- The header appears at the beginning and consists of the following:
- 4-byte signature
- 4-byte version number (network byte order)
+ 4-byte signature:
+ The signature is: {'P', 'A', 'C', 'K'}
+
+ 4-byte version number (network byte order):
+ GIT currently accepts version number 2 or 3 but
+ generates version 2 only.
+
4-byte number of objects contained in the pack (network byte order)
Observation: we cannot have more than 4G versions ;-) and
@@ -41,7 +46,7 @@ GIT pack format
8-byte integers to go beyond 4G objects per pack, but it is
not strictly necessary.
- - The header is followed by sorted 28-byte entries, one entry
+ - The header is followed by sorted 24-byte entries, one entry
per object in the pack. Each entry is:
4-byte network byte order integer, recording where the