Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Date

Feb 1, 2007, 10:09 UTC

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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702011108430.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

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<45C19DD0.20504@fs.ei.tum.de>

Hi,

[culled many people from the Cc: list to avoid a flamewar]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> If you rename, you take the penalty of duplicating the content 
> (compressed) with a new name.  No big deal there. So there are *no* 
> file-ids.  Blobs go into the data/index file which corresponds to their 
> filename.

So, can you explain to me how a filename is _not_ a file-id?