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 737 <h1>GIT bitmap v1 format</h1>
 738 <span id="revdate">2024-01-29</span>
 739 </div>
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 741 <div class="sect1">
 742 <h2 id="_pack_and_multi_pack_bitmaps">Pack and multi-pack bitmaps</h2>
 743 <div class="sectionbody">
 744 <div class="paragraph"><p>Bitmaps store reachability information about the set of objects in a packfile,
 745 or a multi-pack index (MIDX). The former is defined obviously, and the latter is
 746 defined as the union of objects in packs contained in the MIDX.</p></div>
 747 <div class="paragraph"><p>A bitmap may belong to either one pack, or the repository&#8217;s multi-pack index (if
 748 it exists). A repository may have at most one bitmap.</p></div>
 749 <div class="paragraph"><p>An object is uniquely described by its bit position within a bitmap:</p></div>
 750 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 751 <li>
 752 <p>
 753 If the bitmap belongs to a packfile, the <em>n</em>th bit corresponds to
 754         the <em>n</em>th object in pack order. For a function <code>offset</code> which maps
 755         objects to their byte offset within a pack, pack order is defined as
 756         follows:
 757 </p>
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 759 <div class="content">
 760 <pre><code>o1 &lt;= o2 &lt;==&gt; offset(o1) &lt;= offset(o2)</code></pre>
 761 </div></div>
 762 </li>
 763 <li>
 764 <p>
 765 If the bitmap belongs to a MIDX, the <em>n</em>th bit corresponds to the
 766         <em>n</em>th object in MIDX order. With an additional function <code>pack</code> which
 767         maps objects to the pack they were selected from by the MIDX, MIDX order
 768         is defined as follows:
 769 </p>
 770 <div class="literalblock">
 771 <div class="content">
 772 <pre><code>o1 &lt;= o2 &lt;==&gt; pack(o1) &lt;= pack(o2) /\ offset(o1) &lt;= offset(o2)</code></pre>
 773 </div></div>
 774 <div class="paragraph"><p>The ordering between packs is done according to the MIDX&#8217;s .rev file.
 775 Notably, the preferred pack sorts ahead of all other packs.</p></div>
 776 </li>
 777 </ul></div>
 778 <div class="paragraph"><p>The on-disk representation (described below) of a bitmap is the same regardless
 779 of whether or not that bitmap belongs to a packfile or a MIDX. The only
 780 difference is the interpretation of the bits, which is described above.</p></div>
 781 <div class="paragraph"><p>Certain bitmap extensions are supported (see: Appendix B). No extensions are
 782 required for bitmaps corresponding to packfiles. For bitmaps that correspond to
 783 MIDXs, both the bit-cache and rev-cache extensions are required.</p></div>
 784 </div>
 785 </div>
 786 <div class="sect1">
 787 <h2 id="_on_disk_format">On-disk format</h2>
 788 <div class="sectionbody">
 789 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 790 <li>
 791 <p>
 792 A header appears at the beginning:
 793 </p>
 794 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 795 <dt class="hdlist1">
 796 4-byte signature:
 797 </dt>
 798 <dd>
 799 <p>
 800 {<em>B</em>, <em>I</em>, <em>T</em>, <em>M</em>}
 801 </p>
 802 </dd>
 803 <dt class="hdlist1">
 804 2-byte version number (network byte order):
 805 </dt>
 806 <dd>
 807 <p>
 808             The current implementation only supports version 1
 809             of the bitmap index (the same one as JGit).
 810 </p>
 811 </dd>
 812 <dt class="hdlist1">
 813 2-byte flags (network byte order):
 814 </dt>
 815 <dd>
 816 <p>
 817             The following flags are supported:
 818 </p>
 819 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 820 <li>
 821 <p>
 822 </p>
 823 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 824 <dt class="hdlist1">
 825 BITMAP_OPT_FULL_DAG (0x1) REQUIRED:
 826 </dt>
 827 <dd>
 828 <p>
 829             This flag must always be present. It implies that the
 830             bitmap index has been generated for a packfile or
 831             multi-pack index (MIDX) with full closure (i.e. where
 832             every single object in the packfile/MIDX can find its
 833             parent links inside the same packfile/MIDX). This is a
 834             requirement for the bitmap index format, also present in
 835             JGit, that greatly reduces the complexity of the
 836             implementation.
 837 </p>
 838 </dd>
 839 </dl></div>
 840 </li>
 841 <li>
 842 <p>
 843 </p>
 844 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 845 <dt class="hdlist1">
 846 BITMAP_OPT_HASH_CACHE (0x4):
 847 </dt>
 848 <dd>
 849 <p>
 850             If present, the end of the bitmap file contains
 851             <code>N</code> 32-bit name-hash values, one per object in the
 852             pack/MIDX. The format and meaning of the name-hash is
 853             described below.
 854 </p>
 855 </dd>
 856 </dl></div>
 857 </li>
 858 <li>
 859 <p>
 860 </p>
 861 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 862 <dt class="hdlist1">
 863 BITMAP_OPT_LOOKUP_TABLE (0x10):
 864 </dt>
 865 <dd>
 866 <p>
 867                 If present, the end of the bitmap file contains a table
 868                 containing a list of <code>N</code> &lt;commit_pos, offset, xor_row&gt;
 869                 triplets. The format and meaning of the table is described
 870                 below.
 871 </p>
 872 <div class="admonitionblock">
 873 <table><tr>
 874 <td class="icon">
 875 <div class="title">Note</div>
 876 </td>
 877 <td class="content">Unlike the xor_offset used to compress an individual bitmap,
 878 <code>xor_row</code> stores an <strong>absolute</strong> index into the lookup table, not a location
 879 relative to the current entry.</td>
 880 </tr></table>
 881 </div>
 882 </dd>
 883 </dl></div>
 884 </li>
 885 </ul></div>
 886 </dd>
 887 <dt class="hdlist1">
 888 4-byte entry count (network byte order):
 889 </dt>
 890 <dd>
 891 <p>
 892             The total count of entries (bitmapped commits) in this bitmap index.
 893 </p>
 894 </dd>
 895 <dt class="hdlist1">
 896 20-byte checksum:
 897 </dt>
 898 <dd>
 899 <p>
 900             The SHA1 checksum of the pack/MIDX this bitmap index
 901             belongs to.
 902 </p>
 903 </dd>
 904 </dl></div>
 905 </li>
 906 <li>
 907 <p>
 908 4 EWAH bitmaps that act as type indexes
 909 </p>
 910 <div class="paragraph"><p>Type indexes are serialized after the hash cache in the shape
 911 of four EWAH bitmaps stored consecutively (see Appendix A for
 912 the serialization format of an EWAH bitmap).</p></div>
 913 <div class="paragraph"><p>There is a bitmap for each Git object type, stored in the following
 914 order:</p></div>
 915 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 916 <li>
 917 <p>
 918 Commits
 919 </p>
 920 </li>
 921 <li>
 922 <p>
 923 Trees
 924 </p>
 925 </li>
 926 <li>
 927 <p>
 928 Blobs
 929 </p>
 930 </li>
 931 <li>
 932 <p>
 933 Tags
 934 </p>
 935 </li>
 936 </ul></div>
 937 <div class="paragraph"><p>In each bitmap, the `n`th bit is set to true if the `n`th object
 938 in the packfile or multi-pack index is of that type.</p></div>
 939 <div class="paragraph"><p>The obvious consequence is that the OR of all 4 bitmaps will result
 940 in a full set (all bits set), and the AND of all 4 bitmaps will
 941 result in an empty bitmap (no bits set).</p></div>
 942 </li>
 943 <li>
 944 <p>
 945 N entries with compressed bitmaps, one for each indexed commit
 946 </p>
 947 <div class="paragraph"><p>Where <code>N</code> is the total number of entries in this bitmap index.
 948 Each entry contains the following:</p></div>
 949 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 950 <li>
 951 <p>
 952 </p>
 953 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 954 <dt class="hdlist1">
 955 4-byte object position (network byte order):
 956 </dt>
 957 <dd>
 958 <p>
 959             The position <strong>in the index for the packfile or
 960             multi-pack index</strong> where the bitmap for this commit is
 961             found.
 962 </p>
 963 </dd>
 964 </dl></div>
 965 </li>
 966 <li>
 967 <p>
 968 </p>
 969 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 970 <dt class="hdlist1">
 971 1-byte XOR-offset:
 972 </dt>
 973 <dd>
 974 <p>
 975             The xor offset used to compress this bitmap. For an entry
 976             in position <code>x</code>, an XOR offset of <code>y</code> means that the actual
 977             bitmap representing this commit is composed by XORing the
 978             bitmap for this entry with the bitmap in entry <code>x-y</code> (i.e.
 979             the bitmap <code>y</code> entries before this one).
 980 </p>
 981 <div class="admonitionblock">
 982 <table><tr>
 983 <td class="icon">
 984 <div class="title">Note</div>
 985 </td>
 986 <td class="content">This compression can be recursive. In order to
 987 XOR this entry with a previous one, the previous entry needs
 988 to be decompressed first, and so on.</td>
 989 </tr></table>
 990 </div>
 991 <div class="paragraph"><p>The hard-limit for this offset is 160 (an entry can only be
 992 xor&#8217;ed against one of the 160 entries preceding it). This
 993 number is always positive, and hence entries are always xor&#8217;ed
 994 with <strong>previous</strong> bitmaps, not bitmaps that will come afterwards
 995 in the index.</p></div>
 996 </dd>
 997 </dl></div>
 998 </li>
 999 <li>
1000 <p>
1001 </p>
1002 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1003 <dt class="hdlist1">
1004 1-byte flags for this bitmap:
1005 </dt>
1006 <dd>
1007 <p>
1008             At the moment the only available flag is <code>0x1</code>, which hints
1009             that this bitmap can be re-used when rebuilding bitmap indexes
1010             for the repository.
1011 </p>
1012 </dd>
1013 </dl></div>
1014 </li>
1015 <li>
1016 <p>
1017 The compressed bitmap itself, see Appendix A.
1018 </p>
1019 </li>
1020 </ul></div>
1021 </li>
1022 <li>
1023 <p>
1024 </p>
1025 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1026 <dt class="hdlist1">
1027 TRAILER:
1028 </dt>
1029 <dd>
1030 <p>
1031                 Trailing checksum of the preceding contents.
1032 </p>
1033 </dd>
1034 </dl></div>
1035 </li>
1036 </ul></div>
1037 </div>
1038 </div>
1039 <div class="sect1">
1040 <h2 id="_appendix_a_serialization_format_for_an_ewah_bitmap">Appendix A: Serialization format for an EWAH bitmap</h2>
1041 <div class="sectionbody">
1042 <div class="paragraph"><p>Ewah bitmaps are serialized in the same protocol as the JAVAEWAH
1043 library, making them backwards compatible with the JGit
1044 implementation:</p></div>
1045 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1046 <li>
1047 <p>
1048 4-byte number of bits of the resulting UNCOMPRESSED bitmap
1049 </p>
1050 </li>
1051 <li>
1052 <p>
1053 4-byte number of words of the COMPRESSED bitmap, when stored
1054 </p>
1055 </li>
1056 <li>
1057 <p>
1058 N x 8-byte words, as specified by the previous field
1059 </p>
1060 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is the actual content of the compressed bitmap.</p></div>
1061 </li>
1062 <li>
1063 <p>
1064 4-byte position of the current RLW for the compressed
1065                 bitmap
1066 </p>
1067 </li>
1068 </ul></div>
1069 <div class="paragraph"><p>All words are stored in network byte order for their corresponding
1070 sizes.</p></div>
1071 <div class="paragraph"><p>The compressed bitmap is stored in a form of run-length encoding, as
1072 follows.  It consists of a concatenation of an arbitrary number of
1073 chunks.  Each chunk consists of one or more 64-bit words</p></div>
1074 <div class="literalblock">
1075 <div class="content">
1076 <pre><code>H  L_1  L_2  L_3 .... L_M</code></pre>
1077 </div></div>
1078 <div class="paragraph"><p>H is called RLW (run length word).  It consists of (from lower to higher
1079 order bits):</p></div>
1080 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1081 <li>
1082 <p>
1083 1 bit: the repeated bit B
1084 </p>
1085 </li>
1086 <li>
1087 <p>
1088 32 bits: repetition count K (unsigned)
1089 </p>
1090 </li>
1091 <li>
1092 <p>
1093 31 bits: literal word count M (unsigned)
1094 </p>
1095 </li>
1096 </ul></div>
1097 <div class="paragraph"><p>The bitstream represented by the above chunk is then:</p></div>
1098 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1099 <li>
1100 <p>
1101 K repetitions of B
1102 </p>
1103 </li>
1104 <li>
1105 <p>
1106 The bits stored in <code>L_1</code> through <code>L_M</code>.  Within a word, bits at
1107        lower order come earlier in the stream than those at higher
1108        order.
1109 </p>
1110 </li>
1111 </ul></div>
1112 <div class="paragraph"><p>The next word after <code>L_M</code> (if any) must again be a RLW, for the next
1113 chunk.  For efficient appending to the bitstream, the EWAH stores a
1114 pointer to the last RLW in the stream.</p></div>
1115 </div>
1116 </div>
1117 <div class="sect1">
1118 <h2 id="_appendix_b_optional_bitmap_sections">Appendix B: Optional Bitmap Sections</h2>
1119 <div class="sectionbody">
1120 <div class="paragraph"><p>These sections may or may not be present in the <code>.bitmap</code> file; their
1121 presence is indicated by the header flags section described above.</p></div>
1122 </div>
1123 </div>
1124 <div class="sect1">
1125 <h2 id="_name_hash_cache">Name-hash cache</h2>
1126 <div class="sectionbody">
1127 <div class="paragraph"><p>If the BITMAP_OPT_HASH_CACHE flag is set, the end of the bitmap contains
1128 a cache of 32-bit values, one per object in the pack/MIDX. The value at
1129 position <code>i</code> is the hash of the pathname at which the `i`th object
1130 (counting in index or multi-pack index order) in the pack/MIDX can be found.
1131 This can be fed into the delta heuristics to compare objects with similar
1132 pathnames.</p></div>
1133 <div class="paragraph"><p>The hash algorithm used is:</p></div>
1134 <div class="literalblock">
1135 <div class="content">
1136 <pre><code>hash = 0;
1137 while ((c = *name++))
1138         if (!isspace(c))
1139                 hash = (hash &gt;&gt; 2) + (c &lt;&lt; 24);</code></pre>
1140 </div></div>
1141 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that this hashing scheme is tied to the BITMAP_OPT_HASH_CACHE flag.
1142 If implementations want to choose a different hashing scheme, they are
1143 free to do so, but MUST allocate a new header flag (because comparing
1144 hashes made under two different schemes would be pointless).</p></div>
1145 </div>
1146 </div>
1147 <div class="sect1">
1148 <h2 id="_commit_lookup_table">Commit lookup table</h2>
1149 <div class="sectionbody">
1150 <div class="paragraph"><p>If the BITMAP_OPT_LOOKUP_TABLE flag is set, the last <code>N * (4 + 8 + 4)</code>
1151 bytes (preceding the name-hash cache and trailing hash) of the <code>.bitmap</code>
1152 file contains a lookup table specifying the information needed to get
1153 the desired bitmap from the entries without parsing previous unnecessary
1154 bitmaps.</p></div>
1155 <div class="paragraph"><p>For a <code>.bitmap</code> containing <code>nr_entries</code> reachability bitmaps, the table
1156 contains a list of <code>nr_entries</code> &lt;commit_pos, offset, xor_row&gt; triplets
1157 (sorted in the ascending order of <code>commit_pos</code>). The content of the i&#8217;th
1158 triplet is -</p></div>
1159 <div class="ulist"><ul>
1160 <li>
1161 <p>
1162 </p>
1163 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1164 <dt class="hdlist1">
1165 commit_pos (4 byte integer, network byte order):
1166 </dt>
1167 <dd>
1168 <p>
1169         It stores the object position of a commit (in the midx or pack
1170         index).
1171 </p>
1172 </dd>
1173 </dl></div>
1174 </li>
1175 <li>
1176 <p>
1177 </p>
1178 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1179 <dt class="hdlist1">
1180 offset (8 byte integer, network byte order):
1181 </dt>
1182 <dd>
1183 <p>
1184         The offset from which that commit&#8217;s bitmap can be read.
1185 </p>
1186 </dd>
1187 </dl></div>
1188 </li>
1189 <li>
1190 <p>
1191 </p>
1192 <div class="dlist"><dl>
1193 <dt class="hdlist1">
1194 xor_row (4 byte integer, network byte order):
1195 </dt>
1196 <dd>
1197 <p>
1198         The position of the triplet whose bitmap is used to compress
1199         this one, or <code>0xffffffff</code> if no such bitmap exists.
1200 </p>
1201 </dd>
1202 </dl></div>
1203 </li>
1204 </ul></div>
1205 </div>
1206 </div>
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