That said, git doesn't just store direct copies either. It will bundle things up into packfiles as it calls them to do compression and encoding of various form

That said, git doesn't just store direct copies either. It will bundle things up into packfiles as it calls them to do compression and encoding of various forms to reduce disk space and make it quicker to find a given version of a file https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles