> That also means at any given time, git has a copy of all your files since the beginning of the project. This is true in a sense, but these are commonly store

> That also means at any given time, git has a copy of all your files since the beginning of the project. This is true in a sense, but these are commonly stored compressed and of course you can expect to have a pretty good compression ratio when changed files are mostly similar. And if they're not, you really have to store a copy anyway.