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Re: GIT as binary repository

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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Oct 21, 2010, 21:23 UTC
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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).

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Shawn.
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  4. Shawn PearceOct 21, 2010
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  8. Wilson, Kevin Lee (OpenView Engineer)Oct 21, 2010
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