Lib.rs

A crate for handling the references stored in various formats in a git repository.

References are also called refs which are used interchangeably.

Refs are the way to keep track of objects and come in two flavors.

• symbolic refs are pointing to another reference
• peeled refs point to the an object by its ObjectId

They can be identified by a relative path and stored in various flavors.

• files
  • loose
    • one reference maps to a file on disk
  • packed
    • references are stored in a single human-readable file, along with their targets if they are symbolic.

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