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It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLab,
by avar 8y ago
It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLab, since it's something they were interested in to save space.
The feature isn't interesting except for those that run a GitHub-like setup. I.e. repositories with a fork network where clones & fetches can be expected to be served from any repository in the network. In those setups it can make a lot of difference.
- Already__Taken 8y agoWith gitlab-ce being ~500mb this must be a gigantic improvement for them.
- reificator 8y ago> It was written by GitHub, and has been used in their internal fork of git.git for a long time. The work of integrating it with upstream was sponsored by GitLab, since it's something they were interested in to save space. That makes it clear, thank you. My assumption was that GitLab was copying work done by GitHub. > The feature isn't interesting except for those that run a GitHub-like setup. Sure, doesn't mean I'm not interested.