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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt index a4f17441aed3..b3b58880b926 100644 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt +++ b/third_party/git/Documentation/technical/commit-graph-format.txt @@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ metadata, including: - The parents of the commit, stored using positional references within the graph file. +- The Bloom filter of the commit carrying the paths that were changed between + the commit and its first parent, if requested. + These positional references are stored as unsigned 32-bit integers 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 @@ -29,7 +32,7 @@ the body into "chunks" and provide a binary lookup table at the beginning of the body. The header includes certain values, such as number of chunks and hash type. -All 4-byte numbers are in network order. +All multi-byte numbers are in network byte order. HEADER: @@ -39,8 +42,13 @@ HEADER: 1-byte version number: Currently, the only valid version is 1. - 1-byte Hash Version (1 = SHA-1) - We infer the hash length (H) from this value. + 1-byte Hash Version + We infer the hash length (H) from this value: + 1 => SHA-1 + 2 => SHA-256 + If the hash type does not match the repository's hash algorithm, the + commit-graph file should be ignored with a warning presented to the + user. 1-byte number (C) of "chunks" @@ -74,7 +82,7 @@ CHUNK DATA: 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 0x7000000 if no parent in that + of the ith commit. Stores value 0x70000000 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 Extra Edge List chunk. @@ -93,6 +101,33 @@ CHUNK DATA: positions for the parents until reaching a value with the most-significant bit on. The other bits correspond to the position of the last parent. + Bloom Filter Index (ID: {'B', 'I', 'D', 'X'}) (N * 4 bytes) [Optional] + * The ith entry, BIDX[i], stores the number of bytes in all Bloom filters + from commit 0 to commit i (inclusive) in lexicographic order. The Bloom + filter for the i-th commit spans from BIDX[i-1] to BIDX[i] (plus header + length), where BIDX[-1] is 0. + * The BIDX chunk is ignored if the BDAT chunk is not present. + + Bloom Filter Data (ID: {'B', 'D', 'A', 'T'}) [Optional] + * It starts with header consisting of three unsigned 32-bit integers: + - Version of the hash algorithm being used. We currently only support + value 1 which corresponds to the 32-bit version of the murmur3 hash + implemented exactly as described in + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash#Algorithm and the double + hashing technique using seed values 0x293ae76f and 0x7e646e2 as + described in https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30494-4_26 "Bloom Filters + in Probabilistic Verification" + - The number of times a path is hashed and hence the number of bit positions + that cumulatively determine whether a file is present in the commit. + - The minimum number of bits 'b' per entry in the Bloom filter. If the filter + contains 'n' entries, then the filter size is the minimum number of 64-bit + words that contain n*b bits. + * The rest of the chunk is the concatenation of all the computed Bloom + filters for the commits in lexicographic order. + * Note: Commits with no changes or more than 512 changes have Bloom filters + of length one, with either all bits set to zero or one respectively. + * The BDAT chunk is present if and only if BIDX is present. + Base Graphs List (ID: {'B', 'A', 'S', 'E'}) [Optional] This list of H-byte hashes describe a set of B commit-graph files that form a commit-graph chain. The graph position for the ith commit in this |