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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-16 00:08:02 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-16 00:08:02 -0400 |
| commit | 09a7689bc30faaf938a0b32a417d38ac093a6f7a (patch) | |
| tree | d102f43eba76579e2e1366b76d8757ecc3a4c8d0 /doc/internals.mdwn | |
| parent | dd5448eb075c3774aa173cb9f2e4344ce62b3e13 (diff) | |
update and bug closures for v2 layout
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/internals.mdwn | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/internals.mdwn b/doc/internals.mdwn index 3f680dd8f..a133320b4 100644 --- a/doc/internals.mdwn +++ b/doc/internals.mdwn @@ -2,12 +2,15 @@ In the world of git, we're not scared about internal implementation details, and sometimes we like to dive in and tweak things by hand. Here's some documentation to that end. -## `.git/annex/objects/*/*` +## `.git/annex/objects/aa/bb/*/*` This is where locally available file contents are actually stored. Files added to the annex get a symlink checked into git that points to the file content. +First there are two levels of directories used for hashing, to prevent +too many things ending up in any one directory. + Each subdirectory has the name of a key in one of the [[key-value_backends|backends]]. The file inside also has the name of the key. This two-level structure is used because it allows the write bit to be removed @@ -41,10 +44,11 @@ Example: e605dca6-446a-11e0-8b2a-002170d25c55 1 26339d22-446b-11e0-9101-002170d25c55 ? -## `.git-annex/*.log` +## `.git-annex/aa/bb/*.log` The remainder of the log files record [[location_tracking]] information -for file contents. The name of the key is the filename, and the content +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 consists of a timestamp, either 1 (present) or 0 (not present), and the UUID of the repository that has or lacks the file content. |