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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-09-08 22:27:18 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2007-09-15 22:17:23 -0400
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user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we need a different introduction here. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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How git stores objects efficiently: pack files
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-We've seen how git stores each object in a file named after the
-object's SHA1 hash.
+Newly created objects are initially created in a file named after the
+object's SHA1 hash (stored in .git/objects).
Unfortunately this system becomes inefficient once a project has a
lot of objects. Try this on an old project: