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Fwd: what is a snapshot?

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Jun 19, 2016, 14:15 UTC
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I read in every comparison of git vs other version control systems, that git does not record differences but takes "snapshots" I was wondering what a "snapshot" is ? Does git store at every commit the entire files which have been modified even if only a few bytes were changed out of a large file?

thank you
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  1. Ovatta BiancaJun 19, 2016
  2. Philip OakleyJun 19, 2016
  3. Jeff KingJun 24, 2016
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