From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 16:49:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Index format v5
Message-ID: <CABURp0rAjrhVACQEafrZRxtXBAmajpEqfp+EmB7s595dobqHQQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CALgYhfMKdbv8TiT4ALDSvD3pSXHEPLWHM09DxYnRmRdBWRjh8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been drafting the Version 5 of the index format over the past
> few days with the help of Thomas Rast, Michael Haggerty, cmn and
> barrbrain on IRC. It will save with prefix compression on the path, and
> using a crc32 over the stat data, instead of the full data, since it is only
> used for checking if the file is changed. (Thanks Michael Haggerty for
> this hint. Unless we are missing something this will save another
> ~4 MB on the Webkit index.

...

> == Directory entry
>
>  Directory entries are sorted in lexicographic order by the name
>  of their path starting with the root.
>
>  Path names (variable length) relative to top level directory (without the
>    leading slash). '/' is used as path separator. '.' indicates the root
>    directory. The special patch components ".." and ".git" (without quotes)
>    are disallowed. Trailing slash is also disallowed.

typo: The special _path_ components ".." and ".git" ...