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diff --git a/doc/manual/src/design/store/objects.md b/doc/manual/src/design/store/objects.md index 0f3d2a499..e4f49a170 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/design/store/objects.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/design/store/objects.md @@ -62,9 +62,8 @@ Store objects can refer to both other store objects and themselves. Self-reference may seem pointless, but tracking them is in fact useful. We can best explain why later after more concepts have been established. -References are normally calculated by scanning the rooted file system objects for store paths (which we describe in the next section) referring to store objects. -For now, it suffices to say that a store path is a string encoding of a reference to a store paths, and therefore it is something that we can search for in the contents of files, and thus in store objects by searching in all their files. -When we get to building in a future section, this process will be described in precise detail. +References are normally calculated so as to to record the presence of textual references in store object's file systems obejcts. +This process will be described precisely in the section on [building](./building.md), once more concepts are explained, as building is the primary path new store objects with non-trivial references are created. However, scanning for references is not mandatory. Store objects are allowed to have official references that *don't* correspond to store paths contained in their contents, |