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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-03-31 20:13:49 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-03-31 20:13:49 -0400
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First there are two levels of directories used for hashing, to prevent
too many things ending up in any one directory.
+See [[hashing]] for details.
Each subdirectory has the [[name_of_a_key|key_format]] in one of the
[[key-value_backends|backends]]. The file inside also has the name of the key.
@@ -107,7 +108,9 @@ somewhere else.
These log files record [[location_tracking]] information
for file contents. Again these are placed in two levels of subdirectories
-for hashing. The name of the key is the filename, and the content
+for hashing. See [[hashing]] for details.
+
+The name of the key is the filename, and the content
consists of a timestamp, either 1 (present) or 0 (not present), and
the UUID of the repository that has or lacks the file content.