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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | commit-graph.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt index 87971c27dd..484b185ba9 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ CHUNK DATA: 2 bits of the lowest byte, storing the 33rd and 34th bit of the commit time. - Generation Data (ID: {'G', 'D', 'A', 'T' }) (N * 4 bytes) [Optional] + Generation Data (ID: {'G', 'D', 'A', '2' }) (N * 4 bytes) [Optional] * This list of 4-byte values store corrected commit date offsets for the commits, arranged in the same order as commit data chunk. * If the corrected commit date offset cannot be stored within 31 bits, @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ CHUNK DATA: by compatible versions of Git and in case of split commit-graph chains, the topmost layer also has Generation Data chunk. - Generation Data Overflow (ID: {'G', 'D', 'O', 'V' }) [Optional] + Generation Data Overflow (ID: {'G', 'D', 'O', '2' }) [Optional] * This list of 8-byte values stores the corrected commit date offsets for commits with corrected commit date offsets that cannot be stored within 31 bits. @@ -156,3 +156,11 @@ CHUNK DATA: TRAILER: H-byte HASH-checksum of all of the above. + +== Historical Notes: + +The Generation Data (GDA2) and Generation Data Overflow (GDO2) chunks have +the number '2' in their chunk IDs because a previous version of Git wrote +possibly erroneous data in these chunks with the IDs "GDAT" and "GDOV". By +changing the IDs, newer versions of Git will silently ignore those older +chunks and write the new information without trusting the incorrect data. diff --git a/commit-graph.c b/commit-graph.c index b86a6a634f..fb2ced0bd6 100644 --- a/commit-graph.c +++ b/commit-graph.c @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ void git_test_write_commit_graph_or_die(void) #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_OIDFANOUT 0x4f494446 /* "OIDF" */ #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_OIDLOOKUP 0x4f49444c /* "OIDL" */ #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_DATA 0x43444154 /* "CDAT" */ -#define GRAPH_CHUNKID_GENERATION_DATA 0x47444154 /* "GDAT" */ -#define GRAPH_CHUNKID_GENERATION_DATA_OVERFLOW 0x47444f56 /* "GDOV" */ +#define GRAPH_CHUNKID_GENERATION_DATA 0x47444132 /* "GDA2" */ +#define GRAPH_CHUNKID_GENERATION_DATA_OVERFLOW 0x47444f32 /* "GDO2" */ #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_EXTRAEDGES 0x45444745 /* "EDGE" */ #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_BLOOMINDEXES 0x42494458 /* "BIDX" */ #define GRAPH_CHUNKID_BLOOMDATA 0x42444154 /* "BDAT" */ |