> I think your dilemma is largely an imaginary one, fretting over a resource (disk space) that is too plentiful to require micromanagement. I think the need fo

> I think your dilemma is largely an imaginary one, fretting over a resource (disk space) that is too plentiful to require micromanagement. I think the need for GC in git is likely also tied to its original resource intensive implementation. Pack files were added to fix that, but then you need to GC the blobs to prevent storage blowup. Mercurial and most other VCS have delta storage as their base format which avoids this issue.