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163 lines
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Git pack format
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== pack-*.pack files have the following format:
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- A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following:
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4-byte signature:
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The signature is: {'P', 'A', 'C', 'K'}
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4-byte version number (network byte order):
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Git currently accepts version number 2 or 3 but
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generates version 2 only.
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4-byte number of objects contained in the pack (network byte order)
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Observation: we cannot have more than 4G versions ;-) and
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more than 4G objects in a pack.
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- The header is followed by number of object entries, each of
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which looks like this:
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(undeltified representation)
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n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length)
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compressed data
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(deltified representation)
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n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length)
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20-byte base object name if OBJ_REF_DELTA or a negative relative
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offset from the delta object's position in the pack if this
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is an OBJ_OFS_DELTA object
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compressed delta data
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Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable
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length format and is not constrained to 32-bit or anything.
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- The trailer records 20-byte SHA-1 checksum of all of the above.
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== Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format:
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- The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order
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integers. N-th entry of this table records the number of
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objects in the corresponding pack, the first byte of whose
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object name is less than or equal to N. This is called the
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'first-level fan-out' table.
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- The header is followed by sorted 24-byte entries, one entry
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per object in the pack. Each entry is:
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4-byte network byte order integer, recording where the
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object is stored in the packfile as the offset from the
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beginning.
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20-byte object name.
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- The file is concluded with a trailer:
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A copy of the 20-byte SHA-1 checksum at the end of
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corresponding packfile.
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20-byte SHA-1-checksum of all of the above.
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Pack Idx file:
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-- +--------------------------------+
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fanout | fanout[0] = 2 (for example) |-.
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table +--------------------------------+ |
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| fanout[1] | |
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+--------------------------------+ |
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| fanout[2] | |
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| fanout[255] = total objects |---.
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-- +--------------------------------+ | |
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main | offset | | |
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index | object name 00XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | |
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table +--------------------------------+ | |
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| offset | | |
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| object name 00XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | |
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+--------------------------------+<+ |
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.-| offset | |
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| | object name 01XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | |
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| +--------------------------------+ |
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| | offset | |
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| | object name 01XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | |
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| | offset | |
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| | object name FFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | |
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--| +--------------------------------+<--+
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trailer | | packfile checksum |
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| +--------------------------------+
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| | idxfile checksum |
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| +--------------------------------+
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.-------.
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Pack file entry: <+
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packed object header:
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1-byte size extension bit (MSB)
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type (next 3 bit)
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size0 (lower 4-bit)
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n-byte sizeN (as long as MSB is set, each 7-bit)
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size0..sizeN form 4+7+7+..+7 bit integer, size0
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is the least significant part, and sizeN is the
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most significant part.
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packed object data:
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If it is not DELTA, then deflated bytes (the size above
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is the size before compression).
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If it is REF_DELTA, then
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20-byte base object name SHA-1 (the size above is the
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size of the delta data that follows).
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delta data, deflated.
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If it is OFS_DELTA, then
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n-byte offset (see below) interpreted as a negative
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offset from the type-byte of the header of the
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ofs-delta entry (the size above is the size of
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the delta data that follows).
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delta data, deflated.
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offset encoding:
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n bytes with MSB set in all but the last one.
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The offset is then the number constructed by
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concatenating the lower 7 bit of each byte, and
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for n >= 2 adding 2^7 + 2^14 + ... + 2^(7*(n-1))
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to the result.
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== Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and
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have some other reorganizations. They have the format:
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- A 4-byte magic number '\377tOc' which is an unreasonable
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fanout[0] value.
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- A 4-byte version number (= 2)
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- A 256-entry fan-out table just like v1.
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- A table of sorted 20-byte SHA-1 object names. These are
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packed together without offset values to reduce the cache
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footprint of the binary search for a specific object name.
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- A table of 4-byte CRC32 values of the packed object data.
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This is new in v2 so compressed data can be copied directly
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from pack to pack during repacking without undetected
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data corruption.
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- A table of 4-byte offset values (in network byte order).
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These are usually 31-bit pack file offsets, but large
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offsets are encoded as an index into the next table with
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the msbit set.
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- A table of 8-byte offset entries (empty for pack files less
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than 2 GiB). Pack files are organized with heavily used
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objects toward the front, so most object references should
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not need to refer to this table.
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- The same trailer as a v1 pack file:
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A copy of the 20-byte SHA-1 checksum at the end of
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corresponding packfile.
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20-byte SHA-1-checksum of all of the above.
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