From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:08:18 GMT
Subject: Re: git objects directory
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0510311707001.5839@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <dk5dgq$isv$1@sea.gmane.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Lexington Luthor wrote:

> Can someone please explain why git puts its objects in 256 
> sub-directories of objects instead of directly in the objects directory 
> itself?

Some filesystems have problems with huge directories. And originally the 
plan was to have all objects as files (now the older ones live in packs).

Hth,
Dscho