On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:27:11AM -0400, David Abrahams wrote: >> object storage. That is, half of the idea of git is a big database of >> content-addressable objects. > > Absolutely, it's important to know that everything is content-addressable > (which essentially communicates the same important information as "the > object's id is a hash of its contents"). I was trying to say that the > fact that each one is a "first-class" object and has a unique name is not > particularly remarkable. I see. I consider those concepts inextricably linked. But I suppose you could explain one without the other. Anyway, thanks for the perspective. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html