Re: [PATCH] doc: technical details about the index file format
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:30:07PM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
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> 2011/2/20 Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>:
> > Heya,
> >
> > 2010/9/6 Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> >> This bases on the original work by Robin Rosenberg.
> >
> > Junio, in the "what's cooking" you mention that you might jump in to
> > improve this? Duy, are you still interested in carrying this forward?
> > This patch [0] would be helpful to the hgit people as well :).
>
> I can try to study resolve undo extension next week and see if I can
> write it down in the document.
OK here come the missing bits on top of the previous patch. Looks good?
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
index 5b1d70d..574eb3b 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ GIT index format
=== Tree cache
Tree cache extension contains pre-computes hashes for all trees that
- can be derived from the index
+ can be derived from the index.
- Extension tag { 'T', 'R', 'E', 'E' }
@@ -137,8 +137,20 @@ GIT index format
=== Resolve undo
- TODO
+ Resolve undo extension records staged entries before they are
+ resolved and removed from index. It can be used to recreate conflicts
+ after the conflict is incorrectly resolved.
- Extension tag { 'R', 'E', 'U', 'C' }
- 32-bit size
+
+ - A number of entries
+
+ NUL-terminated entry name
+
+ Entry mode of the entry in three stages, in increasing order from
+ 1 to 3, in NUL-terminated ASCII octal number.
+
+ 160 bit SHA-1 of the entry in three stages, in increasing
+ order from 1 to 3. A stage with zero mode will be skipped.
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Duy
Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>