From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Ruderich Subject: Re: Repository formats Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 21:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20140401195504.GA15272@ruderich.org> References: <533ACACF.408@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Phillip Susi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 01 21:55:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WV4mC-0003I0-1f for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:55:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751731AbaDATzI (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:55:08 -0400 Received: from zucker.schokokeks.org ([178.63.68.96]:48546 "EHLO zucker.schokokeks.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751722AbaDATzI (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:55:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (pD9E9601D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [::ffff:217.233.96.29]) (AUTH: PLAIN simon@ruderich.org, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,AES128-SHA) by zucker.schokokeks.org with ESMTPSA; Tue, 01 Apr 2014 21:55:06 +0200 id 000000000002003C.00000000533B199A.0000684B Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <533ACACF.408@ubuntu.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9