Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 04/13] Add documentation of the index-v5 file format

2012-08-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Junio C Hamano writes: >> +== Design explanations >> + ... >> +[3] The data of the cache-tree extension and the resolve undo >> +extension is now part of the index itself, but if other extensions >> +come up in the future, there is no need to change the index, they >> +can simply be a

Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 04/13] Add documentation of the index-v5 file format

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Gummerer
On 08/09, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Thomas Gummerer writes: > > > +GIT index format > > + > > + > > +== The git index file format > > + > > + The git index file (.git/index) documents the status of the files > > + in the git staging area. > > + > > + The staging area is used

Re: [PATCH/RFC v3 04/13] Add documentation of the index-v5 file format

2012-08-09 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thomas Gummerer writes: > +GIT index format > + > + > +== The git index file format > + > + The git index file (.git/index) documents the status of the files > + in the git staging area. > + > + The staging area is used for preparing commits, merging, etc. The above two a

[PATCH/RFC v3 04/13] Add documentation of the index-v5 file format

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Gummerer
Add a documentation of the index file format version 5 to Documentation/technical. Helped-by: Michael Haggerty Helped-by: Junio C Hamano Helped-by: Thomas Rast Helped-by: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Helped-by: Robin Rosenberg Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer --- Documentation/technical/index-file-fo