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

> Johannes Schindelin 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?
> 
> It is not a file-id like other SCM use it (I think monotone, not sure though).
> If you copy/move the content to a new name, the ID will not stay the same.
> Just see it as a hash bucket which allows you easy access to the history for a
> file currently with this name.