From 9644ffdd65f10970d54ab56ae128cde6f3fe1b96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 22:27:18 -0400 Subject: 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 diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt index 4a0fa7e..cf0c188 100644 --- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt +++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt @@ -2952,8 +2952,8 @@ references in .git/refs/tags/). 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: -- cgit v0.10.2-6-g49f6