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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt index d3a142c652..16cf7e83aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt @@ -273,7 +273,12 @@ HEADER: Git only writes or recognizes version 1. 1-byte Object Id Version - Git only writes or recognizes version 1 (SHA1). + We infer the length of object IDs (OIDs) from this value: + 1 => SHA-1 + 2 => SHA-256 + If the hash type does not match the repository's hash algorithm, + the multi-pack-index file should be ignored with a warning + presented to the user. 1-byte number of "chunks" |