user-manual: insert earlier of mention content-addressable architecture

The content-addressable design is too important not to be worth at least
a brief mention a little earlier on.

Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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J. Bruce Fields 2007-03-03 14:04:42 -05:00 коммит произвёл Junio C Hamano
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As you can see, a commit shows who made the latest change, what they
did, and why.
Every commit has a 40-hexdigit id, sometimes called the "object name"
or the "SHA1 id", shown on the first line of the "git show" output.
You can usually refer to a commit by a shorter name, such as a tag or a
branch name, but this longer name can also be useful. Most
importantly, it is a globally unique name for this commit: so if you
tell somebody else the object name (for example in email), then you are
guaranteed that name will refer to the same commit in their repository
that it does in yours (assuming their repository has that commit at
all).
Every commit has a 40-hexdigit id, sometimes called the "object name" or the
"SHA1 id", shown on the first line of the "git show" output. You can usually
refer to a commit by a shorter name, such as a tag or a branch name, but this
longer name can also be useful. Most importantly, it is a globally unique
name for this commit: so if you tell somebody else the object name (for
example in email), then you are guaranteed that name will refer to the same
commit in their repository that it does in yours (assuming their repository
has that commit at all). Since the object name is computed as a hash over the
contents of the commit, you are guaranteed that the commit can never change
without its name also changing.
In fact, in <<git-internals>> we shall see that everything stored in git
history, including file data and directory contents, is stored in an object
with a name that is a hash of its contents.
Understanding history: commits, parents, and reachability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -2155,6 +2160,7 @@ See gitlink:git-config[1] for more details on the configuration
options mentioned above.
[[git-internals]]
Git internals
=============