From: Matthieu Moy Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:55:58 GMT Subject: Re: Curious about details of optimization of object database... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090109174623.GC12552@seberino.org> chris@seberino.org writes: > I'm told a commit is *not* a patch (diff), but, rather a copy of the entire > tree. Conceptually, yes. But obviously, the storage format (pack) does what people usually call "delta-compression", which is basically storing only the diff against another, similar object. -- Matthieu