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Applied Coding & Editor Primitives1 / 3

2 min lesson

Trees, files and repo-scale structures

Use the evidence to decide "When finding duplicate files across a 100k-file repo, why group by file size before hashing contents?" Explain the choice plainly.

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Cursor indexes whole repositories, so the file-system and tree problems are not arbitrary - they are simplified versions of work the editor does every time you open a project.