reftable: clarify how empty tables should be written
The format allows for some ambiguity, as a lone footer also starts with a valid file header. However, the current JGit code will barf on this. This commit codifies this behavior into the standard. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Han-Wen Nienhuys committed
May 20, 2020 at 17:36 UTC
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Once verified, the other fields of the footer can be accessed.
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+Empty tables
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+++++++++++++
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+A reftable may be empty. In this case, the file starts with a header
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+and is immediately followed by a footer.
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Binary search
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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