Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 May 2005 21:18:23 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark |
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On Mon, 2 May 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > > The delta is not the object I care about and its representation is > arbitrary. In fact different branches will store different deltas > depending on how their DAGs get topologically sorted. The object I > care about is the original text, so that's the hash I store.
Ok. In that case, it sounds like you're really doing everything git is doing, except your "blob" objects effectively can have pointers to a previous object (and you have a different on-disk representation)? Is that correct?
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