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From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git objects directory
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:08:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031160803.GB15802@puritan.petwork> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dk5dgq$isv$1@sea.gmane.org>

Lexington Luthor wrote:

> Can someone please explain why git puts its objects in 256 
> sub-directories of objects instead of directly in the objects directory 
> itself? I am trying to learn git (actually cogito), but I still don't 
> understand  why this structure is used.

Because otherwise there would be a lot of objects (files) in the
objects subdirectory, which would cause a lot of problems with many
filesystems.

Anyway, you best leave that directory be, but I understand your desire
to understand :-).

        nikolai

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-31 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-31 15:33 git objects directory Lexington Luthor
2005-10-31 16:08 ` Nikolai Weibull [this message]
2005-10-31 16:08 ` Johannes Schindelin

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