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| author | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2025-03-25 15:33:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2025-04-07 16:09:43 +0200 |
| commit | 1d17c22800eae5329f74d5847d95092b946cd7e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 502132b4307562cc50ab1573e3946322c6b27fa2 /share/man/just-graph-file.5.md | |
| parent | 21957eabce87cc1f52a7fdecd5930970d01883f2 (diff) | |
| download | justbuild-1d17c22800eae5329f74d5847d95092b946cd7e2.tar.gz | |
just-graph-file(5): document tree overlays
Document the conservative extension of our graph-file format due
to the addition of tree overlays.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/just-graph-file.5.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/just-graph-file.5.md b/share/man/just-graph-file.5.md index d84f5fbb..1e2c5de9 100644 --- a/share/man/just-graph-file.5.md +++ b/share/man/just-graph-file.5.md @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ same key are treated. Artifacts and their serialization --------------------------------- -There are four different kind of artifacts. The serialization of the +There are five different kind of artifacts. The serialization of the artifact is always a JSON object with two keys: *`"type"`* and *`"data"`*. The value for *`"type"`* is always on of the strings *`"LOCAL"`*, *`"KNOWN"`*, *`"ACTION"`*, or *`"TREE"`*. The value for @@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ artifact is of. - *`"TREE"`* artifacts refer to trees defined in the action graph. The defining data are - the *`"id"`*, a string with the name of the tree. + - *`"TREE_OVERLAY"`* artifacts refer to trees defined as the result of + overlaying earlier trees. The defining data are + - the *`"id"`*, a string with the name of the tree overlay. + Actions and their serialization ------------------------------- @@ -115,6 +119,16 @@ The action graph is given by a JSON object. - The value for the key *`"actions"`* is a JSON object, mapping names of actions to their respective definition (serialized as JSON). +- The optional value (with default `{}`) for the key *`"tree_overlays"`* + is a JSON object mapping the names of tree overlay to their + definition. The definition is a JSON object with the following keys. + - For the key *`"trees"`* a JSON array of the artifacts to be + overlayed in the order they are to be overlayed (with latest-wins + semantics for each path). + - For the key *`"disjoint"`* a boolean indicating if it is to + be considered an error of a conflict arises on any path of the + trees to be overlayed. + Additional keys --------------- |