From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 04:18:23 GMT Subject: Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20050503032916.GE22038@waste.org> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > 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