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diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.adoc b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.adoc index 1b4db4aa61..3416edceab 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitformat-pack.adoc +++ b/Documentation/gitformat-pack.adoc @@ -374,7 +374,9 @@ HEADER: The signature is: {'M', 'I', 'D', 'X'} 1-byte version number: - Git only writes or recognizes version 1. + Git writes the version specified by the "midx.version" + configuration option, which defaults to 2. It recognizes + both versions 1 and 2. 1-byte Object Id Version We infer the length of object IDs (OIDs) from this value: @@ -413,7 +415,9 @@ CHUNK DATA: 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. + chunk size a multiple of 4 bytes. Version 1 MIDXs are required to + list their packs in lexicographic order, but version 2 MIDXs may + list their packs in any arbitrary order. Bitmapped Packfiles (ID: {'B', 'T', 'M', 'P'}) Stores a table of two 4-byte unsigned integers in network order. |