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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-31 18:57:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-07-31 18:57:32 -0700 |
| commit | b35acb53458d0f99ba2400b902980b35e5acc2d3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e599a9af18af3b62ce52318b2759faa7d92f311 /Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | |
| parent | 4db0d0d1ba94c08f9476c7adff61375a752b154d (diff) | |
| parent | d5b66299040969706dd675c021f4336a26a6cc82 (diff) | |
| download | git-b35acb53458d0f99ba2400b902980b35e5acc2d3.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'maint'
* maint:
Break down no-lstat() condition checks in verify_uptodate()
t7400: fix bogus test failure with symlinked trash
Documentation: clarify the invalidated tree entry format
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical/index-format.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 7b233ca196..8930b3fabc 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -147,8 +147,9 @@ GIT index format - 160-bit object name for the object that would result from writing this span of index as a tree. - An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having -1 - in the entry_count field. + An entry can be in an invalidated state and is represented by having + -1 in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no object name + and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. The entries are written out in the top-down, depth-first order. The first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the |