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

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  1. mgrandl · · focus · HN ↗
    Sweet. It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done. Would be so much nicer if gitlab/forgejo/gitea/… supported object storage for everything. Currently you always still need a filesystem for git repos.
    1. throwaway7356 · · focus · HN ↗
      It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient.

      Yes, it was not "object storage", but Git can be served from a dumb http server as static files. Now someone figured out that object storage can also serve static files via http. Wow!

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