I'm told a commit is *not* a patch (diff), but, rather a copy of the entire tree. Can anyone say, in a few sentences, how git avoids needing to keep multiple slightly different copies of entire files without just storing lots of patches/diffs? cs -- 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