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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-08-01 18:00:47 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2014-08-01 18:00:47 -0400
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Merge branch 'newchunks'
I am happy enough with this to make it live!
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@@ -36,3 +36,8 @@ string, but where that would normally encode the bits using the 16 characters
0-9a-f, this instead uses the 32 characters "0123456789zqjxkmvwgpfZQJXKMVWGPF".
The first 2 letters of the resulting string are the first directory, and the
second 2 are the second directory.
+
+## chunk keys
+
+The same hash directory is used for a chunk key as would be used for the
+key that it's a chunk of.