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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce.stephens@isode.com>
Subject: Re: How Blobs Work ( Blobs Vs. Deltas)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:28:21 +0100
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"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>.