From: Kārlis Repsons Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:25:55 GMT Subject: Re: What happens in this example case? Message-ID: <201004061625.58742.k@11.lv> In-Reply-To: On Tuesday 06 April 2010 15:42:05 Eric Raible wrote: > 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).