[PATCH] Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt: enhance discussion of objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]
From: <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:50
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: jidanni <redacted>
diff --git a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
index 03c52ff..bf900df 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitrepository-layout.txt@@ -46,6 +46,4 @@ objects/[0-9a-f][0-9a-f]:: - Traditionally, each object is stored in its own file. - They are split into 256 subdirectories using the first - two letters from its object name to keep the number of - directory entries `objects` directory itself needs to - hold. Objects found here are often called 'unpacked' - (or 'loose') objects. + Each object is stored in its own file. They are split into 256 + subdirectories to keep directory sizes down. Example: object + 92b35d66... is stored in .git/object/92/b35d66... Objects + found here are often called 'unpacked' (or 'loose') objects.
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