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i remember reading that too https://willi.am/blog/2014/10/14/for-the-last-time-git-stores-snapshots-not-diffs/ https://willi.am/blog/2014/10/14/for-the-last-ti

• mtone 3y ago
  Assuming it's correct, I think this answer explains it well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31996121/283879 https://stackoverflow.com/a/31996121/283879 Basically, yes it may write snapshots per-file (never per-commit) locally but there is a separate routine to transparently repack the whole thing with deltas.