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diff --git a/packfile/doc.go b/packfile/doc.go new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1fc28da --- /dev/null +++ b/packfile/doc.go @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +package packfile + +// Code from: +// https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain/tree/master/git @ 4c2fabdf9 +// +// GIT pack format +// =============== +// +// == pack-*.pack files have the following format: +// +// - A header appears at the beginning and consists of the following: +// +// 4-byte signature: +// The signature is: {'P', 'A', 'C', 'K'} +// +// 4-byte version number (network byte order): +// GIT currently accepts version number 2 or 3 but +// generates version 2 only. +// +// 4-byte number of objects contained in the pack (network byte order) +// +// Observation: we cannot have more than 4G versions ;-) and +// more than 4G objects in a pack. +// +// - The header is followed by number of object entries, each of +// which looks like this: +// +// (undeltified representation) +// n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length) +// compressed data +// +// (deltified representation) +// n-byte type and length (3-bit type, (n-1)*7+4-bit length) +// 20-byte base object name +// compressed delta data +// +// Observation: length of each object is encoded in a variable +// length format and is not constrained to 32-bit or anything. +// +// - The trailer records 20-byte SHA1 checksum of all of the above. +// +// == Original (version 1) pack-*.idx files have the following format: +// +// - The header consists of 256 4-byte network byte order +// integers. N-th entry of this table records the number of +// objects in the corresponding pack, the first byte of whose +// object name is less than or equal to N. This is called the +// 'first-level fan-out' table. +// +// - The header is followed by sorted 24-byte entries, one entry +// per object in the pack. Each entry is: +// +// 4-byte network byte order integer, recording where the +// object is stored in the packfile as the offset from the +// beginning. +// +// 20-byte object name. +// +// - The file is concluded with a trailer: +// +// A copy of the 20-byte SHA1 checksum at the end of +// corresponding packfile. +// +// 20-byte SHA1-checksum of all of the above. +// +// Pack Idx file: +// +// -- +--------------------------------+ +// fanout | fanout[0] = 2 (for example) |-. +// table +--------------------------------+ | +// | fanout[1] | | +// +--------------------------------+ | +// | fanout[2] | | +// ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | +// | fanout[255] = total objects |---. +// -- +--------------------------------+ | | +// main | offset | | | +// index | object name 00XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | | +// table +--------------------------------+ | | +// | offset | | | +// | object name 00XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | | +// +--------------------------------+<+ | +// .-| offset | | +// | | object name 01XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | +// | +--------------------------------+ | +// | | offset | | +// | | object name 01XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | +// | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | +// | | offset | | +// | | object name FFXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | +// --| +--------------------------------+<--+ +// trailer | | packfile checksum | +// | +--------------------------------+ +// | | idxfile checksum | +// | +--------------------------------+ +// .-------. +// | +// Pack file entry: <+ +// +// packed object header: +// 1-byte size extension bit (MSB) +// type (next 3 bit) +// size0 (lower 4-bit) +// n-byte sizeN (as long as MSB is set, each 7-bit) +// size0..sizeN form 4+7+7+..+7 bit integer, size0 +// is the least significant part, and sizeN is the +// most significant part. +// packed object data: +// If it is not DELTA, then deflated bytes (the size above +// is the size before compression). +// If it is REF_DELTA, then +// 20-byte base object name SHA1 (the size above is the +// size of the delta data that follows). +// delta data, deflated. +// If it is OFS_DELTA, then +// n-byte offset (see below) interpreted as a negative +// offset from the type-byte of the header of the +// ofs-delta entry (the size above is the size of +// the delta data that follows). +// delta data, deflated. +// +// offset encoding: +// n bytes with MSB set in all but the last one. +// The offset is then the number constructed by +// concatenating the lower 7 bit of each byte, and +// for n >= 2 adding 2^7 + 2^14 + ... + 2^(7*(n-1)) +// to the result. +// +// +// +// == Version 2 pack-*.idx files support packs larger than 4 GiB, and +// have some other reorganizations. They have the format: +// +// - A 4-byte magic number '\377tOc' which is an unreasonable +// fanout[0] value. +// +// - A 4-byte version number (= 2) +// +// - A 256-entry fan-out table just like v1. +// +// - A table of sorted 20-byte SHA1 object names. These are +// packed together without offset values to reduce the cache +// footprint of the binary search for a specific object name. +// +// - A table of 4-byte CRC32 values of the packed object data. +// This is new in v2 so compressed data can be copied directly +// from pack to pack during repacking without undetected +// data corruption. +// +// - A table of 4-byte offset values (in network byte order). +// These are usually 31-bit pack file offsets, but large +// offsets are encoded as an index into the next table with +// the msbit set. +// +// - A table of 8-byte offset entries (empty for pack files less +// than 2 GiB). Pack files are organized with heavily used +// objects toward the front, so most object references should +// not need to refer to this table. +// +// - The same trailer as a v1 pack file: +// +// A copy of the 20-byte SHA1 checksum at the end of +// corresponding packfile. +// +// 20-byte SHA1-checksum of all of the above. +// +// From: +// https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.5/technical/pack-protocol.txt |