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Git from the Bottom Up – Blobs and Trees

Coding Blocks

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Is There a Hash Table?

The first couple characters were used as the directory forit. It's almost like an optimization for that, so that you know that that same hash always points to the same exact file. So even if you have that file in 20 different places in your inyer directory on your system itself, and get it's going to have one reference to that blob idea. And then there could be multiple trees that reference that same blob. This was actually a key differentiator forget compared to some of those others where, like, the others would track files and directories.

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