user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Sun, 9 Sep 2007 02:27:18 +0000 (22:27 -0400)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:17:23 +0000 (22:17 -0400)
Actually I don't think we've previously mentioned .git/objects, so we
need a different introduction here.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 4a0fa7e958a5df016122b0668b08309db158d68c..cf0c188fa5117a0f273fe18bab4debdde96f9aa7 100644 (file)
@@ -2952,8 +2952,8 @@ references in .git/refs/tags/).
 How git stores objects efficiently: pack files
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-We've seen how git stores each object in a file named after the
-object's SHA1 hash.
+Newly created objects are initially created in a file named after the
+object's SHA1 hash (stored in .git/objects).
 
 Unfortunately this system becomes inefficient once a project has a
 lot of objects.  Try this on an old project: