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Re: Repository formats

From
Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
Date
Apr 1, 2014, 19:55 UTC
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<20140401195504.GA15272@ruderich.org>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 10:18:55AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I have seen some discussion about various changes to the format of the
> index and pack files over time, but can't find anything about it in
> the man pages.  Are the different formats documented anywhere, and how
> to tell which format you are using?
Hello,

The documentation is available in Documentation/technical/, e.g. index-format.txt and pack-format.txt.

However not everything is available there. For current work on those formats, check the mailing list archive, e.g. [1]

Regards Simon

[1]: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/233083
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