5af7417bd8
The optional 'Large Edge List' chunk of the commit graph file stores
parent information for commits with more than two parents, and the
names of most of the macros, variables, struct fields, and functions
related to this chunk contain the term "large edges", e.g.
write_graph_chunk_large_edges(). However, it's not a really great
term, as the edges to the second and subsequent parents stored in this
chunk are not any larger than the edges to the first and second
parents stored in the "main" 'Commit Data' chunk. It's the number of
edges, IOW number of parents, that is larger compared to non-merge and
"regular" two-parent merge commits. And indeed, two functions in
'commit-graph.c' have a local variable called 'num_extra_edges' that
refer to the same thing, and this "extra edges" term is much better at
describing these edges.
So let's rename all these references to "large edges" in macro,
variable, function, etc. names to "extra edges". There is a
GRAPH_OCTOPUS_EDGES_NEEDED macro as well; for the sake of consistency
rename it to GRAPH_EXTRA_EDGES_NEEDED.
We can do so safely without causing any incompatibility issues,
because the term "large edges" doesn't come up in the file format
itself in any form (the chunk's magic is {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}, there
is no 'L' in there), but only in the specification text. The string
"large edges", however, does come up in the output of 'git
commit-graph read' and in tests looking at its input, but that command
is explicitly documented as debugging aid, so we can change its output
and the affected tests safely.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
98 lines
3.8 KiB
Plaintext
98 lines
3.8 KiB
Plaintext
Git commit graph format
|
|
=======================
|
|
|
|
The Git commit graph stores a list of commit OIDs and some associated
|
|
metadata, including:
|
|
|
|
- The generation number of the commit. Commits with no parents have
|
|
generation number 1; commits with parents have generation number
|
|
one more than the maximum generation number of its parents. We
|
|
reserve zero as special, and can be used to mark a generation
|
|
number invalid or as "not computed".
|
|
|
|
- The root tree OID.
|
|
|
|
- The commit date.
|
|
|
|
- The parents of the commit, stored using positional references within
|
|
the graph file.
|
|
|
|
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
|
|
(1 << 30) + (1 << 29) + (1 << 28) - 1 (around 1.8 billion) commits.
|
|
|
|
== Commit graph files have the following format:
|
|
|
|
In order to allow extensions that add extra data to the graph, we organize
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
HEADER:
|
|
|
|
4-byte signature:
|
|
The signature is: {'C', 'G', 'P', 'H'}
|
|
|
|
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 number (C) of "chunks"
|
|
|
|
1-byte (reserved for later use)
|
|
Current clients should ignore this value.
|
|
|
|
CHUNK LOOKUP:
|
|
|
|
(C + 1) * 12 bytes listing the table of contents for the chunks:
|
|
First 4 bytes describe the chunk id. Value 0 is a terminating label.
|
|
Other 8 bytes provide the byte-offset in current file for chunk to
|
|
start. (Chunks are ordered contiguously in the file, so you can infer
|
|
the length using the next chunk position if necessary.) Each chunk
|
|
ID appears at most once.
|
|
|
|
The remaining data in the body is described one chunk at a time, and
|
|
these chunks may be given in any order. Chunks are required unless
|
|
otherwise specified.
|
|
|
|
CHUNK DATA:
|
|
|
|
OID Fanout (ID: {'O', 'I', 'D', 'F'}) (256 * 4 bytes)
|
|
The ith entry, F[i], stores the number of OIDs with first
|
|
byte at most i. Thus F[255] stores the total
|
|
number of commits (N).
|
|
|
|
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', '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
|
|
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.
|
|
* The next 8 bytes store the generation number of the commit and
|
|
the commit time in seconds since EPOCH. The generation number
|
|
uses the higher 30 bits of the first 4 bytes, while the commit
|
|
time uses the 32 bits of the second 4 bytes, along with the lowest
|
|
2 bits of the lowest byte, storing the 33rd and 34th bit of the
|
|
commit time.
|
|
|
|
Extra Edge List (ID: {'E', 'D', 'G', 'E'}) [Optional]
|
|
This list of 4-byte values store the second through nth parents for
|
|
all octopus merges. The second parent value in the commit data stores
|
|
an array position within this list along with the most-significant bit
|
|
on. Starting at that array position, iterate through this list of commit
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
TRAILER:
|
|
|
|
H-byte HASH-checksum of all of the above.
|