From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: khanzf@gmail.com
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding pack format
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 16:54:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CPUBEmgu+jZPadAwbs8GbjEOVPcuDeoQV7m8DE3iCk5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFd4kYBDWMvVgDmNTzwOK9Q7n_Fb0NrvNAFgHtKvkLkRFWqUKw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 2, 2018 at 6:26 AM Farhan Khan <khanzf@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to understand the pack file format and have been reading
> the documentation, specifically https://git-scm.com/docs/pack-format
> (which is in git's own git repository as
> "Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt"). I see that the file starts
> with the "PACK" signature, followed by the 4 byte version and 4 byte
> number of objects. After this, the documentation speaks about
> Undeltified and Deltified representations. I understand conceptually
> what each is, but do not know specifically how git parses it out.
If by "it" you mean the deltified representations, I think it's
actually documented in pack-format.txt. If you prefer C over English,
look at patch-delta.c
--
Duy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-02 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-02 5:23 Understanding pack format Farhan Khan
2018-11-02 6:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-11-02 16:00 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-06 2:23 ` Farhan Khan
2018-11-06 6:09 ` Jeff King
2018-11-06 16:06 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-11-02 15:54 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
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