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

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delf · 1789819275 · focus · HN ↗
This is exactly what GitSocial does: <a href="https://gitsocial.org/" rel="nofollow">https://gitsocial.org/. Plus it can generate static sites for repositories, letting you serve it all from a bucket.
1. Difwif · 1789838675 · focus · HN ↗
  This seems incredible and I love the idea. Anyone using this for large projects? Any clear downsides or tradeoffs?
  1. delf · 1789839998 · focus · HN ↗
    Not that I know of as I don't have a way track this. I did test importing and mirroring everything for Ghostty and Meshtastic projects, found out that initial import and push steps may take a while.
    Great to have issues, PRs, etc in git, but requires each participant to set up a fork to participate.
    No CI though, but an extension to capture job logs is on the roadmap.
  2. adastra22 · 1789844699 · focus · HN ↗
    Radicule does something similar. Also git-bug.

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