From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:11:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: technical details about the index file format
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=iFe=MmUiXzC_HMwueZxLJDCea+zp_-SNWvSup@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vlj7k42t7.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> +  32-bit ctime seconds, the last time a file's metadata changed
>>> +    this is stat(2) data
>>> +
>>> +  32-bit ctime nanoseconds (modulo 1G)
>>> +    this is stat(2) data
>>
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but I failed to find where "modulo 1G" comes from.
>
> I think the above wants to say "seconds and sub-seconds are stored in
> separate fields, and latter is purely sub-seconds, never reaching nor
> exceeding a whole second" (gig == 10^-9) times nano (== 10^+9) is 1).
>
> I personally do not think it is a good idea to say " (modulo 1G)" there;
> it is more confusing than without.
>

Perhaps "nanosecond fractions" would be a simple and precise description?