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authorEric Eastwood <contact@ericeastwood.com>2017-10-05 02:56:52 -0500
committerEric Eastwood <contact@ericeastwood.com>2017-10-05 02:56:52 -0500
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Clarify where the artifacts metadata .gz is generated
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## Implementation details
When GitLab receives an artifacts archive, an archive metadata file is also
-generated. This metadata file describes all the entries that are located in the
-artifacts archive itself. The metadata file is in a binary format, with
-additional GZIP compression.
+generated by [GitLab Workhorse]. This metadata file describes all the entries
+that are located in the artifacts archive itself.
+The metadata file is in a binary format, with additional GZIP compression.
GitLab does not extract the artifacts archive in order to save space, memory
and disk I/O. It instead inspects the metadata file which contains all the