Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)
Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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>> If you rename, you take the penalty of duplicating the content
>> (compressed) with a new name. No big deal there. So there are *no*
>> file-ids. Blobs go into the data/index file which corresponds to their
>> filename.
> So, can you explain to me how a filename is _not_ a file-id?
It is not a file-id like other SCM use it (I think monotone, not sure though). If you copy/move the content to a new name, the ID will not stay the same. Just see it as a hash bucket which allows you easy access to the history for a file currently with this name.
cheers
simon
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