From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: format of git pack objects
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:19:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100831231947.GH32601@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimNnUYoBa1VfZeBb=eD=HymOU_h57bthYFC9jUZ@mail.gmail.com>
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <luke.leighton@gmail.com> wrote:
> where can i get information (specifications) on the format of git
> pack-objects... please don't say "look at the source code" unless
> there simply doesn't exist any format specifications. as part of the
> git p2p bittorrent vfs layer stuff, a "file save" operation doesn't
> "happen by magic": i need to actually verify the pack objects
> received: count the number of entries? or do i?
Its in the Documentation/technical subdirectory of git.git[1].
Look at pack-format.txt. Its rather sparse though.
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=git/git.git;a=tree;f=Documentation/technical;hb=HEAD
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Shawn.
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2010-08-31 23:17 format of git pack objects Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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2010-08-31 23:22 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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