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Re: Some problems for git beginners

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Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 9, 2021, 09:12 UTC
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On 09/10/21 14.43, ZhangJinbao wrote:
> Third, when a commit event occurs, the current blob file stores the full amount of data, while the previous version stores the incremental data
>

When you `git commit`, Git will initially write objects related to the commit (blob, tree, and commit) as loose objects. Some point on the time, Git will repack many loose objects into one big packfile and write the corresponding pack index. Delta compression is applied when writing the packfile.

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