From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
To: chris@seberino.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Curious about details of optimization of object database...
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:56:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109175619.GA807@linode.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109174623.GC12552@seberino.org>
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:46:23AM -0800, chris@seberino.org wrote:
>I'm told a commit is *not* a patch (diff), but, rather a copy of the entire
>tree.
>
>Can anyone say, in a few sentences, how git avoids needing to keep multiple
>slightly different copies of entire files without just storing lots of
>patches/diffs?
Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 17:46 Curious about details of optimization of object database chris
2009-01-09 17:55 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-01-09 18:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-09 17:56 ` David Brown [this message]
2009-01-09 19:07 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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