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> If you have rewrote a file 999 times, there is 999 times copy of this file in the object storage. That's why it can be slow to clone a git repository. Sort o
by amarshall 3y ago
> If you have rewrote a file 999 times, there is 999 times copy of this file in the object storage. That's why it can be slow to clone a git repository.
Sort of. While Git’s canonical storage is indeed not diffs, it uses delta compression to, well, store diffs as a storage and transit optimization https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles