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| author |  J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-09-08 22:27:18 -0400 |
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| committer | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> | 2007-09-15 22:17:23 -0400 |
| commit | 9644ffdd65f10970d54ab56ae128cde6f3fe1b96 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ba976a6795799e4b85564512ed0db86fc8819b7 /Documentation | |
| parent | user-manual: move packfile and dangling object discussion (diff) | |
| download | tgif-9644ffdd65f10970d54ab56ae128cde6f3fe1b96.tar.xz | |
user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we
need a different introduction here.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/user-manual.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 4a0fa7e958..cf0c188fa5 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2952,8 +2952,8 @@ references in .git/refs/tags/). How git stores objects efficiently: pack files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -We've seen how git stores each object in a file named after the -object's SHA1 hash. +Newly created objects are initially created in a file named after the +object's SHA1 hash (stored in .git/objects). Unfortunately this system becomes inefficient once a project has a lot of objects. Try this on an old project: |