> > Well, there are exactly three types of objects in Git repos: blobs, > trees and commits. Files are stored as blobs. Blobs have no "file > names" attached to them; in fact, they keep no associated metadata at > all. Since humans routinely manipulate data kept in files using > hierarchical files systems, Git mirrors this approach by using tree > objects. A tree object serves the same purpose a directory does on a > file system: it maps human-defined names of the files to their contents. > So a tree object contains a set of entries -- each representing a > single file or a subdirectory. Each entry has three "fields" a > (simplified) file mode, the hash value of the entry's contents (its > address, that is) and the human-friendly name -- taken from the source > filesystem. Subdirectory entries refer to other tree objects and file > entries refer to blobs. >
Dear Konstantin, Thanks a lot. So, all the 3 objects types are referenced by SHA hash values and searched using these values. This includes blobs, trees & commit objects. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
