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user-manual: fix introduction to packfiles
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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>
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How git stores objects efficiently: pack files
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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:
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