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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. shados · · focus · HN ↗
      There's a bunch. I got pissed during one of the last GitHub outages and had an AI agent one shot a clone with PR, stacks, actions, and full compatibility with the git client running on Cloudflare workers and R2. Only limitations is it was https only because CF workers don't have tcp to implement and without an enterprise account.

      Works great to this day. And I was far from the first.

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