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Re: What happens in this example case?

From
KRKārlis Repsons <k@11.lv>
Date
Apr 6, 2010, 16:25 UTC
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On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15:42:05 Eric Raible wrote:
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> Hi,
> it would be good if someone did basic research before asking such
>  questions.
> 
> Start with http://book.git-scm.com.

Thanks, silly enough I didn't see that link in the documentation page, where "Git Community Book : The git-scm.com community-built comprehensive online book" was just a headline of some kind to me...

So, as I now understand it: git stores all unique contents of a file into a blob; there is no need to descend into the previous commits to get the actual contents of a file (as I was admitting, it could happen with help of diffs).

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