Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
If you rename, you take the penalty of duplicating the content (compressed) with a new name. No big deal there. So there are *no* file-ids. Blobs go into the data/index file which corresponds to their filename.
So, can you explain to me how a filename is _not_ a file-id?

It is not a file-id like other SCM use it (I think monotone, not sure though).  If you copy/move the content to a new name, the ID will not stay the same.  Just see it as a hash bucket which allows you easy access to the history for a file currently with this name.

cheers
 simon

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