index-format.txt: document v2 format of file system monitor extension
Update the documentation of the file system monitor extension to describe version 2. The format was extended to support opaque tokens in: 56c6910028 fsmonitor: change last update timestamp on the index_state to opaque token Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler <jeffhost@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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The extension starts with
- - 32-bit version number: the current supported version is 1.
+ - 32-bit version number: the current supported versions are 1 and 2.
- - 64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given
+ - (Version 1)
+ 64-bit time: the extension data reflects all changes through the given
time which is stored as the nanoseconds elapsed since midnight,
January 1, 1970.
+ - (Version 2)
+ A null terminated string: an opaque token defined by the file system
+ monitor application. The extension data reflects all changes relative
+ to that token.
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- 32-bit bitmap size: the size of the CE_FSMONITOR_VALID bitmap.
- An ewah bitmap, the n-th bit indicates whether the n-th index entry