Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 3, 2005, 04:18 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505022116080.3594@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050503032916.GE22038@waste.org>

On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:

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> 
> The delta is not the object I care about and its representation is
> arbitrary. In fact different branches will store different deltas
> depending on how their DAGs get topologically sorted. The object I
> care about is the original text, so that's the hash I store.

Ok. In that case, it sounds like you're really doing everything git is doing, except your "blob" objects effectively can have pointers to a previous object (and you have a different on-disk representation)? Is that correct?

			Linus

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