Hi David, On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:36:23PM -0400, David Eger wrote: > > No. A tree is not the full data. A tree contains enough information > > to > > _recreate_ the full data, but the tree itself just tells you _how_ > > to do > > that. It doesn't contain very much of the data itself at all. > > Perhaps I'd understand this if you tell me what "recreate" means. > If a have a SHA1 hash of a file, and I have the file, I can verify > that said > file has the SHA1 hash it's supposed to have, but I can't generate the > file > from it's hash...
But, but if you have that hexified SHA1 hash of a particular file you want to access, there would be a file with a filename equal to that hexified SHA1 hash which contained the compressed contents of the file you're looking for. At least, that's how I understood it... With friendly regards, Takis -- OpenPGP key: http://lumumba.luc.ac.be/takis/takis_public_key.txt fingerprint: 6571 13A3 33D9 3726 F728 AA98 F643 B12E ECF3 E029 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
