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From: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Repository formats
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:55:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140401195504.GA15272@ruderich.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <533ACACF.408@ubuntu.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I have seen some discussion about various changes to the format of the
> index and pack files over time, but can't find anything about it in
> the man pages.  Are the different formats documented anywhere, and how
> to tell which format you are using?

Hello,

The documentation is available in Documentation/technical/, e.g.
index-format.txt and pack-format.txt.

However not everything is available there. For current work on
those formats, check the mailing list archive, e.g. [1]

Regards
Simon

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233083
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2014-04-01 14:18 Repository formats Phillip Susi
2014-04-01 19:55 ` Simon Ruderich [this message]

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