On 6/22/2018 2:31 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Derrick Stolee <stolee@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
The index extension documentation doesn't appear to be clear about
which extensions are optional or required, but it seems the
split-index is the only "required" one and uses lowercase for its
extension id.
read-cache.c::
/* Index extensions.
*
* The first letter should be 'A'..'Z' for extensions that are not
* necessary for a correct operation (i.e. optimization data).
* When new extensions are added that _needs_ to be understood in
* order to correctly interpret the index file, pick character that
* is outside the range, to cause the reader to abort.
*/
Thanks! I was reading Documentation/technical/index-format.txt and
optional extensions are mentioned but not described precisely.
