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

From: Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:59:12 +0100

Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>> Sidenote 2: Mercurial repository structure might make it use "file-ids"
>>> (perhaps implicitely), with all the disadvantages (different renames
>>> on different branches) of those.
>> Nope.
> How it is so, if the blobs (file contents) are stored filename hashed?
> IIRC hg has some scheme to deal with renames, but it is file-id (file
> identity) based AFAIK.

No, the buckets are simply the filename.  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.

cheers
  simon

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