From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:56:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Curious about details of optimization of object database...
Message-ID: <20090109175619.GA807@linode.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090109174623.GC12552@seberino.org>

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 09:46:23AM -0800, chris@seberino.org wrote:
>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?

   Documentation/technical/pack-heuristics.txt

David