a caret to mark the boundary commit.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_the_porcelain_format">THE PORCELAIN FORMAT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In this format, each line is output after a header; the
header at the minimum has the first line which has:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>40-byte SHA-1 of the commit the line is attributed to;</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the line number of the line in the original file;</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>the line number