From: demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:46:19 GMT
Subject: Re: Do moves add to repository size?
Message-ID: <9b18b3110812310146r48a15907q2bf88d81b6bf4e0f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <85fafb0c0812310111s552247em5f0ca57b737aedc3@mail.gmail.com>

2008/12/31 Simon Chiang <simon.a.chiang@gmail.com>:
> Hey, I'm quite curious to know if moves/renames duplicate the file
> content in the repository (and hence grow the repository size) or if
> they just change the location of the content.  I want to drastically
> reorganize a repository and I'm wondering if will double it in size.

No it wont. Git uses a content addressable storage. And since in a
rename the content doesnt change....

Yves


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