Merge branch 'sb/object-store-lookup'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / technical / commit-graph-format.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
index ad6af8105cf68e9e607cf67032e445094e53daf9..cc0474ba3ee4b04153752340328233437d5c7b05 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ metadata, including:
   the graph file.
 
 These positional references are stored as unsigned 32-bit integers
-corresponding to the array position withing the list of commit OIDs. We
-use the most-significant bit for special purposes, so we can store at most
-(1 << 31) - 1 (around 2 billion) commits.
+corresponding to the array position within the list of commit OIDs. Due
+to some special constants we use to track parents, we can store at most
+(1 << 30) + (1 << 29) + (1 << 28) - 1 (around 1.8 billion) commits.
 
 == Commit graph files have the following format:
 
@@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ CHUNK DATA:
   OID Lookup (ID: {'O', 'I', 'D', 'L'}) (N * H bytes)
       The OIDs for all commits in the graph, sorted in ascending order.
 
-  Commit Data (ID: {'C', 'G', 'E', 'T' }) (N * (H + 16) bytes)
+  Commit Data (ID: {'C', 'D', 'A', 'T' }) (N * (H + 16) bytes)
     * The first H bytes are for the OID of the root tree.
     * The next 8 bytes are for the positions of the first two parents
-      of the ith commit. Stores value 0xffffffff if no parent in that
+      of the ith commit. Stores value 0x7000000 if no parent in that
       position. If there are more than two parents, the second value
       has its most-significant bit on and the other bits store an array
       position into the Large Edge List chunk.