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Re: [PATCH] Technical details about the index file format.

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TSTim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Date
Feb 11, 2008, 12:00 UTC
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Robin Rosenberg(robin.rosenberg@dewire.com)@110208-07:28:
> diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
A couple of typos:
> +     Name (variable length) - encoding is undefined
> +
> +     1-8 nul bytes as necessary to pad the entry to a multiple ot eight bytes
                                                                   ^
of
>  +    The only know index extension today is a tree cache. It contains
>  +    pre-computes hashes for all trees that can be derived from the index
                   ^
computed
full stop
Tim
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