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* Revision Generation Question
@ 2010-05-20  7:46 Albert Krawczyk
  2010-05-20 11:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Albert Krawczyk @ 2010-05-20  7:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how the internal revision generation works. Could
somebody shed some light on how this happens in the code?

I've stepped through the code, however, I still don't really understand how
the revision history gets generated. 

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated :)  

Albert 

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* Re: Revision Generation Question
  2010-05-20  7:46 Revision Generation Question Albert Krawczyk
@ 2010-05-20 11:34 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ramkumar Ramachandra @ 2010-05-20 11:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Albert Krawczyk; +Cc: git

Hi,

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Albert Krawczyk <u4232169@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how the internal revision generation works. Could
> somebody shed some light on how this happens in the code?

In short, there are four kinds of objects that Git uses internally:
commit, blob, tree and tag. It can compress objects into a packfile
for minimizing storage space. I recommend chapter 9 of the Pro Git
book for more [1].

-- Ram

[1] http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html

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