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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How Blobs Work ( Blobs Vs. Deltas)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:28:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80vdwd64bu.fsf@tiny.isode.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16946e800809300814v134a42dft37becdbd8aa7669a@mail.gmail.com> (Feanil Patel's message of "Tue\, 30 Sep 2008 10\:14\:06 -0500")

"Feanil Patel" <feanil@gmail.com> writes:

> I was reading about git objects on The Git
> Book(http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html) which was
> posted on the mailing list a while back and I was wondering something
> about blobs and how files are stored in any particular version.

[...]

> The Book was saying Git does not use delta storage so does this mean
> that there are two almost identical copies of the file with the
> difference being the change that was put in from version one to
> version two?

There might be.  git may also end up using deltas, see
<http://book.git-scm.com/7_the_packfile.html>.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-30 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-30 15:14 How Blobs Work ( Blobs Vs. Deltas) Feanil Patel
2008-09-30 15:28 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
2008-09-30 15:29 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-30 18:54 ` Jakub Narebski

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