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authorAbhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com>2022-06-16 05:03:54 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-06-16 11:48:50 -0700
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bitmap-format.txt: add information for trailing checksum
Bitmap file has a trailing checksum at the end of the file. However there is no information in the bitmap-format documentation about it. Add a trailer section to include the trailing checksum info in the `Documentation/technical/bitmap-format.txt` file. Signed-off-by: Abhradeep Chakraborty <chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ in the index.
** The compressed bitmap itself, see Appendix A.
+ * {empty}
+ TRAILER: ::
+ Trailing checksum of the preceding contents.
+
== Appendix A: Serialization format for an EWAH bitmap
Ewah bitmaps are serialized in the same protocol as the JAVAEWAH