1.5 Tracking Projects, Directories, and Files
So far you’ve seen how to store your code in repositories. In this section, we’ll talk about how to organize the things you store.
At the lowest level, Git tracks the files you store in your
repository as content. This is different from many version
control systems that track files.
Instead of tracking a models.py file,
Git tracks the content—the individual characters and lines
that make up the variables, functions, and so on—of
models.py, and Git adds
metadata to it such as the name, file mode, and whether the file is a symlink.
It’s a nuanced difference, but it’s an important one.
Technically, this has a lot of advantages. It reduces the amount of storage space needed to store the entire history ...
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