Re: newbie questions about git design and features (some wrt hg)

Hi,

[culled many people from the Cc: list to avoid a flamewar]

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

If you rename, you take the penalty of duplicating the content 
(compressed) with a new name.  No big deal there. So there are *no* 
file-ids.  Blobs go into the data/index file which corresponds to their 
filename.

So, can you explain to me how a filename is _not_ a file-id?

Ciao,
Dscho