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

30 points by evacchi - 6 comments
0bytes [3 hidden]5 mins ago
4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?
mgrandl [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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.
hanwenn [3 hidden]5 mins ago
"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.

jiggawatts [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Next: replace whole-file hashes with a Merkle Patricia tree hash and enable BitTorrent-like distribution protocols on top, not to mention the deduplication advantages!
mmastrac [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.