Signed-off-by: Peter Eriksen <s022018@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I'll take it in smaller steps this time. Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index aa87756..f6b1405 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -103,10 +103,20 @@ Pack file entry: <+ packed object data: If it is not DELTA, then deflated bytes (the size above is the size before compression). - If it is DELTA, then + If it is REF_DELTA, then 20-byte base object name SHA1 (the size above is the size of the delta data that follows). delta data, deflated. + If it is OFS_DELTA, then + n-byte offset (see below) (the size above is the + size of the delta data that follows). + delta data, deflated. + + offset encoding: + n bytes with MSB set in all but the last one. + The offset is then the number constructed by + concatenating the lower 7 bit of each byte, and + adding 2^7 + 2^14 + ... + 2^(7*(n-1)) to the result. = Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and -- 1.5.5-rc3.GIT -- 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