Feanil Patel schrieb: > I was reading about git objects on The Git > Book(http://book.git-scm.com/1_the_git_object_model.html) which was > posted on the mailing list a while back and I was wondering something > about blobs and how files are stored in any particular version. If > file A is changed from version one to version two there are two > different blobs that exist for the two versions of the file, is that > correct? The Book was saying Git does not use delta storage so does > this mean that there are two almost identical copies of the file with > the difference being the change that was put in from version one to > version two? At the conceptual level, yes. An entire file (== blob) is the smallest unit that you can address. Even git's internals do not work with smaller units. But there is, of course, a mechanism that stores the database in a more compact format, the so-called pack files, that basically store differences between files as much as possible. -- Hannes -- 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
