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authorHan-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>2022-02-21 18:46:04 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2022-02-23 13:36:26 -0800
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Documentation: object_id_len goes up to 31
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> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt b/Documentation/technical/reftable.txt
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@@ -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