From: chris@seberino.org
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:46:23 GMT
Subject: Curious about details of optimization of object database...
Message-ID: <20090109174623.GC12552@seberino.org>

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