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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:27:21 -0400
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] another project for those of you looking for one
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> Why is it when I read about git I immediately think "venti"?  Let's
> just get Linus to switch to using v9fs and plan9ports venti.   [sounds
> scary]

Git is SHA1-addressed, but that's where the similarity ends.
Git works on entire files, not blocks, and it defines different
metadata trees tailored to the job Linus is doing.

Russ