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Re: Git's database structure

From
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2007, 16:28 UTC
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Another way of looking at the problem,

Let's build a full-text index for git. You put a string into the index and it returns the SHAs of all the file nodes that contain the string. How do I recover the path names of these SHAs?

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Jon Smirl
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