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glossary: add reachability bitmap description
Describe the purpose of the reachability bitmap. Signed-off-by: Philip Oakley <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <[email protected]>
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Documentation/glossary-content.txt

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<<def_tree_object,trees>> to the trees or <<def_blob_object,blobs>>
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that they contain.
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[[def_reachability_bitmap]]reachability bitmaps::
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Reachability bitmaps store information about the
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<<def_reachable,reachability>> of a selected set of commits in
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a packfile, or a multi-pack index (MIDX), to speed up object search.
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The bitmaps are stored in a ".bitmap" file. A repository may have at
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most one bitmap file in use. The bitmap file may belong to either one
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pack, or the repository's multi-pack index (if it exists).
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[[def_rebase]]rebase::
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To reapply a series of changes from a <<def_branch,branch>> to a
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different base, and reset the <<def_head,head>> of that branch

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