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[01/15] gitformat-commit-graph: describe version 2 of BDAT

Message ID 0241b6e18867dab34c8dd8b49a861884e9818d37.1692654233.git.me@ttaylorr.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series bloom: changed-path Bloom filters v2 | expand

Commit Message

Taylor Blau Aug. 21, 2023, 9:43 p.m. UTC 
From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>

The code change to Git to support version 2 will be done in subsequent
commits.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
---
 Documentation/gitformat-commit-graph.txt | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/gitformat-commit-graph.txt b/Documentation/gitformat-commit-graph.txt
index 31cad585e2..3e906e8030 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitformat-commit-graph.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitformat-commit-graph.txt
@@ -142,13 +142,16 @@  All multi-byte numbers are in network byte order.
 
 ==== Bloom Filter Data (ID: {'B', 'D', 'A', 'T'}) [Optional]
     * It starts with header consisting of three unsigned 32-bit integers:
-      - Version of the hash algorithm being used. We currently only support
-	value 1 which corresponds to the 32-bit version of the murmur3 hash
+      - Version of the hash algorithm being used. We currently support
+	value 2 which corresponds to the 32-bit version of the murmur3 hash
 	implemented exactly as described in
 	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash#Algorithm and the double
 	hashing technique using seed values 0x293ae76f and 0x7e646e2 as
 	described in https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30494-4_26 "Bloom Filters
-	in Probabilistic Verification"
+	in Probabilistic Verification". Version 1 Bloom filters have a bug that appears
+	when char is signed and the repository has path names that have characters >=
+	0x80; Git supports reading and writing them, but this ability will be removed
+	in a future version of Git.
       - The number of times a path is hashed and hence the number of bit positions
 	      that cumulatively determine whether a file is present in the commit.
       - The minimum number of bits 'b' per entry in the Bloom filter. If the filter