From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lexington Luthor Subject: git objects directory Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:33:44 +0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 31 16:57:36 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EWbzJ-0007kf-Ow for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:54:24 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932326AbVJaPyK (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:54:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932289AbVJaPyK (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:54:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:27793 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932326AbVJaPyI (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:54:08 -0500 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EWbw3-0006aS-TZ for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:51:00 +0100 Received: from bb-82-108-13-253.ukonline.co.uk ([82.108.13.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:50:59 +0100 Received: from Lexington.Luthor by bb-82-108-13-253.ukonline.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:50:59 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bb-82-108-13-253.ukonline.co.uk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (Windows/20051030) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 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. What is the point of having the first byte of the hash as the directory name? -- LL