Content Addressability
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Objects are stored and retrieved by the hash of their content. If you know what content you want, you can compute its hash and look it up directly. This means identical content is never stored twice.
← Back to SHA-1 Hashing
Objects are stored and retrieved by the hash of their content. If you know what content you want, you can compute its hash and look it up directly. This means identical content is never stored twice.