Re: GIT as binary repository
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- Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
- Date
- Oct 22, 2010, 05:02 UTC
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* Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote: > > BTW: how are the current tree objects structured ? Is there always > > one big tree object representing the whole tree or can it be > > splitted hierachically ? > > Trees in the repository are split hierarchically, but its a flat list > in the dircache/index file (aka $GIT_DIR/index).
Good. That should allow optimizations for large trees w/o having to change object formats.
What about splitted blobs ? Is this supported by the object format right now ?
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