From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:06:05 GMT
Subject: Re: How are the same file modified on different brances stored physically?
Message-ID: <7vskz8i3cy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <15799383.post@talk.nabble.com>

amishera <amishera2007@gmail.com> writes:

> I am trying to figure out how stuffs work behind the scene. We know that we
> can switch branches freely and then work on the switched branch. If the same
> file is modified on two branches then how are the two copies of the two
> branches saved?

They are saved separately, and depending on which branch you check out, the
appropriate one for that branch is given to you.