From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:34:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Revision Generation Question
Message-ID: <AANLkTimg2zxwI2LC97sNyRpa8zChSUPeWCU-zr1DLbuK@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <000d01caf7f0$7f8c6700$7ea53500$@anu.edu.au>

Hi,

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Albert Krawczyk <u4232169@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how the internal revision generation works. Could
> somebody shed some light on how this happens in the code?

In short, there are four kinds of objects that Git uses internally:
commit, blob, tree and tag. It can compress objects into a packfile
for minimizing storage space. I recommend chapter 9 of the Pro Git
book for more [1].

-- Ram

[1] http://progit.org/book/ch9-0.html