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diff --git a/Documentation/technical/reftable.md b/Documentation/technical/reftable.md index 34f752950d..47c61a350d 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/reftable.md +++ b/Documentation/technical/reftable.md @@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ its value(s). Records are formatted as: varint( prefix_length ) varint( (suffix_length << 3) | value_type ) suffix + varint( update_index_delta ) value? The `prefix_length` field specifies how many leading bytes of the @@ -258,6 +259,10 @@ Recovering a reference name from any `ref_record` is a simple concat: The `suffix_length` value provides the number of bytes available in `suffix` to copy from `suffix` to complete the reference name. +The `update_index` that last modified the reference can be obtained by +adding `update_index_delta` to the `min_update_index` from the file +header: `min_update_index + update_index_delta`. + The `value` follows. Its format is determined by `value_type`, one of the following: |