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Git internals
=============
There are two object abstractions: the "object database", and the
"current directory cache" aka "index".
Git depends on two fundamental abstractions: the "object database", and
the "current directory cache" aka "index".
The Object Database
-------------------
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determined at object creation time, and which identifies the format of
the object (i.e. how it is used, and how it can refer to other
objects). There are currently four different object types: "blob",
"tree", "commit" and "tag".
"tree", "commit", and "tag".
A "blob" object cannot refer to any other object, and is, like the type
implies, a pure storage object containing some user data. It is used to
actually store the file data, i.e. a blob object is associated with some
particular version of some file.
A <<def_blob_object,"blob" object>> cannot refer to any other object,
and is, as the name implies, a pure storage object containing some
user data. It is used to actually store the file data, i.e. a blob
object is associated with some particular version of some file.
A "tree" object is an object that ties one or more "blob" objects into a
directory structure. In addition, a tree object can refer to other tree
objects, thus creating a directory hierarchy.
A <<def_tree_object,"tree" object>> is an object that ties one or more
"blob" objects into a directory structure. In addition, a tree object
can refer to other tree objects, thus creating a directory hierarchy.
A "commit" object ties such directory hierarchies together into
a DAG of revisions - each "commit" is associated with exactly one tree
(the directory hierarchy at the time of the commit). In addition, a
"commit" refers to one or more "parent" commit objects that describe the
history of how we arrived at that directory hierarchy.
A <<def_commit_object,"commit" object>> ties such directory hierarchies
together into a <<def_DAG,directed acyclic graph>> of revisions - each
"commit" is associated with exactly one tree (the directory hierarchy at
the time of the commit). In addition, a "commit" refers to one or more
"parent" commit objects that describe the history of how we arrived at
that directory hierarchy.
As a special case, a commit object with no parents is called the "root"
object, and is the point of an initial project commit. Each project
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just going to confuse people. So aim for the notion of "one root object
per project", even if git itself does not enforce that.
A "tag" object symbolically identifies and can be used to sign other
objects. It contains the identifier and type of another object, a
symbolic name (of course!) and, optionally, a signature.
A <<def_tag_object,"tag" object>> symbolically identifies and can be
used to sign other objects. It contains the identifier and type of
another object, a symbolic name (of course!) and, optionally, a
signature.
Regardless of object type, all objects share the following
characteristics: they are all deflated with zlib, and have a header