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Many people have mentioned that this is incorrect, but I wanted to ask why you thought this, and why you thought it so confidently? The Linux kernel repo conta
by orf 3y ago
Many people have mentioned that this is incorrect, but I wanted to ask why you thought this, and why you thought it so confidently?
The Linux kernel repo contains 1.1 million commits and 80k files on master. That would mean a naive total of 88,000,000,000 files being stored as a “full copy of the repository”.
Does this pass the smell test?
- tedunangst 3y ago"Git stores a copy of the repo" is not an entirely unreasonable inference to draw from "git does not store deltas".
- orf 3y agoI guess that’s my question: is it? Does that inference pass any kind of smell test with basically any non-toy repo?
- tedunangst 3y agoI think one can (and should) look at some real repos to conclude it's not that simple, but if you're simply told it doesn't store diffs, what else would you think it stores?
- orf 3y agoI would think that either it stores a volume of data that would make it impossible to use… or it it doesn’t. And if it isn’t impossible to use then I wouldn’t post about how it is.