What is the encoding of the filename? -- Chico Sokol On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:25:14PM -0300, Chico Sokol wrote: >> Is there any official documentation of tree objets format? Are tree >> objects encoded specially in some way? How can I parse the inflated >> contents of a tree object? > > Tree object consists of entries, each concatenation of: > - Octal mode (using ASCII digits 0-7). > - Single SPACE (0x20) > - Filename > - Single NUL (0x00) > - 20-byte binary SHA-1 of referenced object. > > At least following octal modes are known: > 40000: Directory (tree). > 100644: Regular file (blob). > 100755: Executable file (blob). > 120000: Symbolic link (blob). > 160000: Submodule (commit). > > The entries are always sorted in (bytewise) lexicographical order, > except directories sort like there was impiled '/' at the end. > > So e.g.: > ! < 0 < 9 < a < a- < a- (directory) < a (directory) < a0 < ab < b < z. > > > The idea of sorting directories specially is that if one recurses > upon hitting a directory and uses '/' as path separator, then the > full filenames are in bytewise lexicographical order. > > -Ilari -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html