Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263015AbVDLWim (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:38:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263014AbVDLWih (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:38:37 -0400 Received: from atlmail.prod.rxgsys.com ([64.74.124.160]:14209 "EHLO bastet.signetmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263026AbVDLWgh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:36:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:36:23 -0400 From: David Eger To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Petr Baudis , "Randy.Dunlap" , Ross Vandegrift , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Re: more git updates.. Message-ID: <20050412223623.GA29088@havoc.gtf.org> References: <20050409200709.GC3451@pasky.ji.cz> <20050412040519.GA17917@havoc.gtf.org> <20050412081613.GA18545@pasky.ji.cz> <20050412204429.GA24910@havoc.gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 30 On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 02:21:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Yes. A tree is defined by the blobs it references (and the subtrees) but > it doesn't _contain_ them. It just contains a pointer to them. A pointer to them? You mean a SHA1 hash of them? or what? Where is the *real* data stored? The real files, the real patches? Are these somewhere completely outside of git? > > Therefore, "TREE" must be the *full* data, and since we have the following > > definition for CHANGESET: > > No. A tree is not the full data. A tree contains enough information to > _recreate_ the full data, but the tree itself just tells you _how_ to do > that. It doesn't contain very much of the data itself at all. Perhaps I'd understand this if you tell me what "recreate" means. If a have a SHA1 hash of a file, and I have the file, I can verify that said file has the SHA1 hash it's supposed to have, but I can't generate the file from it's hash... Sorry for being stubbornly dumb, but you'll have a couple of us puzzling at the README ;-) -dte - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/