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

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0bytes2 hours ago

4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?

gjvc51 minutes ago

it's a shit website with awful fonts, certainly

mgrandl3 hours 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.

throwaway735620 minutes ago

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!

uptownhr37 minutes ago

I created my own as well and powers agentgit.co

scoopertrooper16 minutes ago

That Claude written page is impenetrable. You really need to write yourself or use a better model.

mmastrac3 hours ago

Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.

jiggawatts2 hours 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!

hanwenn2 hours 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.