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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Understanding version 4 packs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:55:31 -0400
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Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> >Hence, the path component table would contain:
> >
> >        drivers
> >        usb
> >        host
> >        Kconfig
> >        Makefile
> >        ehci.h
> >        ehci-pci.c
> >        ohci-pci.c
> >        sched.c
> >
> >along with the mode bits for each of those path components, and this is
> >what the new tree object would index into for each tree record.
> 
> Just a question. So getting full paths does it requires some additional 
> work?

No.

Why?  Because Git already makes the full path by taking individual
path components from each tree object and joins them together
(adding a "/" between each component) before displaying it to an
application, or loading the path into the index file.  This is
because of the fundemental (and quite nice!) structure of a tree.

-- 
Shawn.