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Merge branch 'gc/index-format-doc' 

Doc update.

* gc/index-format-doc:
  docs: document zero bits in index "mode"
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Junio C Hamano 2023-02-09 14:40:46 -08:00
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@ -83,11 +83,13 @@ Git index format

32-bit mode, split into (high to low bits)

16-bit unused, must be zero

4-bit object type
valid values in binary are 1000 (regular file), 1010 (symbolic link)
and 1110 (gitlink)

3-bit unused
3-bit unused, must be zero

9-bit unix permission. Only 0755 and 0644 are valid for regular files.
Symbolic links and gitlinks have value 0 in this field.