Is the git storage model wasteful?

Question

I was reading about how git stores changes in The Git Object Model¹.

It sounds like if I change one line in a file, it\'s going to re-store the entire fil

Answer 1

Actually not. There is a good article describing the advantage of git: http://web.archive.org/web/20110902055701/http://whygitisbetterthanx.com:80/