From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
To: chris@seberino.org
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Curious about details of optimization of object database...
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:55:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqzli01hzl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109174623.GC12552@seberino.org> (chris@seberino.org's message of "Fri\, 9 Jan 2009 09\:46\:23 -0800")
chris@seberino.org writes:
> I'm told a commit is *not* a patch (diff), but, rather a copy of the entire
> tree.
Conceptually, yes. But obviously, the storage format (pack) does what
people usually call "delta-compression", which is basically storing
only the diff against another, similar object.
--
Matthieu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 17:46 Curious about details of optimization of object database chris
2009-01-09 17:55 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2009-01-09 18:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-01-09 17:56 ` David Brown
2009-01-09 19:07 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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