[PATCH v2 1/7] Documentation: object_id_len goes up to 31
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- Feb 17, 2022, 13:55 UTC
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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
The value is stored in a 5-bit field, so we can't support more without a format version upgrade.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> --- Documentation/technical/reftable.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt index d7c3b645cfb..6a67cc4174f 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Obj block format Object blocks are optional. Writers may choose to omit object blocks, especially if readers will not use the object name to ref mapping. -Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-32 object name keys, mapping to +Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-31 byte object name keys, mapping to ref blocks containing references pointing to that object directly, or as the peeled value of an annotated tag. Like ref blocks, object blocks use the file's standard block size. The abbreviation length is available in
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