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Xueersi Online School Tech Team
Xueersi Online School Tech Team
Dec 18, 2020 · Fundamentals

Understanding Git Internals: Objects, Trees, Commits, Tags, and Packfiles

This article explains how Git stores data by describing the .git directory layout, the four object types (blob, tree, commit, tag), how objects are hashed and organized, and how Git packs objects to save space, answering why a second commit stores a full file.

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Understanding Git Internals: Objects, Trees, Commits, Tags, and Packfiles