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

148 points · 35 comments · evacchi

mgrandl · 1789798246 · 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. baalimago · 1789808545 · focus · HN ↗
  > It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done
  <a href="https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3
  This works seamlessly so you can run `git remote add origin s3://my-git-bucket/my-repo`

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