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| author | Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | 2021-01-07 16:32:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2021-01-15 23:04:59 -0800 |
| commit | 4bdde337f40c089fea8e076eb00132fc093ca79e (patch) | |
| tree | 8740881583b2e3ed58b48be6c41629000f6a42e9 /Documentation/technical | |
| parent | 22ad8600c1d45ade6bd4b6bd5df87ad733b0575a (diff) | |
| download | git-4bdde337f40c089fea8e076eb00132fc093ca79e.tar.gz | |
index-format: discuss recursion of cache-tree better
The end of the cache tree index extension format trails off with
ellipses ever since 23fcc98 (doc: technical details about the index
file format, 2011-03-01). While an intuitive reader could gather what
this means, it could be better to use "and so on" instead.
Really, this is only justified because I also wanted to point out that
the number of subtrees in the index format is used to determine when the
recursive depth-first-search stack should be "popped." This should help
to add clarity to the format.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/technical')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/index-format.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt index 65dcfa570d..b633482b1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/index-format.txt @@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ Git index format first entry represents the root level of the repository, followed by the first subtree--let's call this A--of the root level (with its name relative to the root level), followed by the first subtree of A (with - its name relative to A), ... + its name relative to A), and so on. The specified number of subtrees + indicates when the current level of the recursive stack is complete. === Resolve undo |