From 8fea12ab40aab3e0590a5980ce336437b5dcc694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philip Oakley Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2022 17:41:11 +0100 Subject: glossary: add reachability bitmap description Describe the purpose of the reachability bitmap. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau --- Documentation/glossary-content.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/glossary-content.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt index a526710278..5a537268e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/glossary-content.txt +++ b/Documentation/glossary-content.txt @@ -508,6 +508,14 @@ exclude;; <> to the trees or <> that they contain. +[[def_reachability_bitmap]]reachability bitmaps:: + Reachability bitmaps store information about the + <> of a selected set of commits in + a packfile, or a multi-pack index (MIDX), to speed up object search. + The bitmaps are stored in a ".bitmap" file. A repository may have at + most one bitmap file in use. The bitmap file may belong to either one + pack, or the repository's multi-pack index (if it exists). + [[def_rebase]]rebase:: To reapply a series of changes from a <> to a different base, and reset the <> of that branch -- cgit 1.2.3-korg