From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
To: "Simon Chiang" <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size?
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b18b3110812310146r48a15907q2bf88d81b6bf4e0f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com>
2008/12/31 Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>:
> Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file
> content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if
> they just change the location of the content. I want to drastically
> reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size.
No it wont. Git uses a content addressable storage. And since in a
rename the content doesnt change....
Yves
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perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-31 9:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-31 9:11 Do moves add to repository size? Simon Chiang
2008-12-31 9:46 ` demerphq [this message]
2008-12-31 15:17 ` Alex Riesen
2008-12-31 15:53 ` Simon Chiang
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