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[1/7] Documentation: object_id_len goes up to 31

Message ID 2d2e1177ff7c15f9a026ebe1e1be17791d9930f0.1642010868.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit fa48de62ac00bdd634ea5bcd5b1a6bccfa4d9117
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Series reftable: avoid reading and writing empty keys | expand

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Han-Wen Nienhuys Jan. 12, 2022, 6:07 p.m. UTC 
From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>

The value is stored in a 5-bit field, so we can't support more without
a format version upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
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 Documentation/technical/reftable.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
index d7c3b645cfb..6a67cc4174f 100644
--- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
+++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@  Obj block format
 Object blocks are optional. Writers may choose to omit object blocks,
 especially if readers will not use the object name to ref mapping.
 
-Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-32 object name keys, mapping to
+Object blocks use unique, abbreviated 2-31 byte object name keys, mapping to
 ref blocks containing references pointing to that object directly, or as
 the peeled value of an annotated tag. Like ref blocks, object blocks use
 the file's standard block size. The abbreviation length is available in