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You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

148 points · 35 comments · evacchi

hanwenn · 1789801006 · focus · HN ↗
"Finally delta objects should be stored as their own object in the packfile instead of slapped onto the end of the object it’s a delta of so that you don’t have to read the object and its deltas to read the object in the first place."
Author thinks that delta encoding is there for no reason. Good luck, kid.

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