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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-21 15:18:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-21 15:18:32 -0800 |
| commit | d34ccd6df743222d1bc135edd15504be93b2571b (patch) | |
| tree | daa228078eb68a9caf721e134c8432bc9fe3406c /Documentation | |
| parent | 80c78e11a007d234dcbc173ad002fae8f80a3707 (diff) | |
| parent | 4a6385fe555f810e8168399df673d00addffb721 (diff) | |
| download | git-d34ccd6df743222d1bc135edd15504be93b2571b.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'nd/index-format-doc'
* nd/index-format-doc:
index-format.txt: clarify what is "invalid"
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -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 57d6f915b1..7324154838 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -161,8 +161,9 @@ GIT index format 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. In this case, there is no object name - and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + a negative number in the entry_count field. In this case, there is no + object name and the next entry starts immediately after the newline. + When writing an invalid entry, -1 should always be used as entry_count. 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 |