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Back in 32f3c54 (multi-pack-index: write pack names in chunk,
2018-07-12) the MIDX's "Packfile Names" (or "PNAM", for short) chunk was
described as containing an array of string entries. e0d1bcf notes
that this is the only chunk in the MIDX format's specification that is
not guaranteed to be 4-byte aligned, and so should be placed last.
This isn't quite accurate: the entries within the PNAM chunk are not
guaranteed to be 4-byte aligned since they are arbitrary strings, but
the chunk itself is 4-byte aligned since the ending is padded with NUL
bytes.
That padding has always been there since 32f3c54 via
midx.c::write_midx_pack_names(), which ended with:
i = MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT - (written % MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT)
if (i < MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT) {
unsigned char padding[MIDX_CHUNK_ALIGNMENT];
memset(padding, 0, sizeof(padding))
hashwrite(f, padding, i);
written += i;
}
In fact, 32f3c54's log message itself describes the chunk in its
first paragraph with:
Since filenames are not well structured, add padding to keep good
alignment in later chunks.
So these have always been externally aligned. Correct the corresponding
part of our documentation to reflect that.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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