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diff --git a/gitformat-pack.txt b/gitformat-pack.txt index 4a4d87e7d..9fcb29a9c 100644 --- a/gitformat-pack.txt +++ b/gitformat-pack.txt @@ -390,10 +390,11 @@ CHUNK LOOKUP: CHUNK DATA: Packfile Names (ID: {'P', 'N', 'A', 'M'}) - Stores the packfile names as concatenated, null-terminated strings. - Packfiles must be listed in lexicographic order for fast lookups by - name. This is the only chunk not guaranteed to be a multiple of four - bytes in length, so should be the last chunk for alignment reasons. + Store the names of packfiles as a sequence of NUL-terminated + strings. There is no extra padding between the filenames, + and they are listed in lexicographic order. The chunk itself + is padded at the end with between 0 and 3 NUL bytes to make the + chunk size a multiple of 4 bytes. OID Fanout (ID: {'O', 'I', 'D', 'F'}) The ith entry, F[i], stores the number of OIDs with first |