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"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> Another way of looking at the problem,
>
> Let's build a full-text index for git. You put a string into the index
> and it returns the SHAs of all the file nodes that contain the string.
> How do I recover the path names of these SHAs?

That question does not make much sense without specifying "which
commit's path you are talking about".

If you want to encode such "contextual information" in addition
to "contents", you could do so, but you essentially need to
record commit + pathname + mode bits + contents as "blob" and
hash that to come up with a name.