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How Blobs Work ( Blobs Vs. Deltas)

From
Feanil Patel <feanil@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 30, 2008, 15:14 UTC
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Hello,

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?

-Feanil
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