Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933 I'm not so sure about the "forever" part as git gc

Earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39481933 I'm not so sure about the "forever" part as git gc is a thing, and at least in 2013 they ran it regularly: https://stackoverflow.com/a/56020315 https://stackoverflow.com/a/56020315 No idea about nowadays though. There is this blog post: https://github.blog/engineering/scaling-gits-garbage-collection/ https://github.blog/engineering/scaling-gits-garbage-collect... > We have used this idea at GitHub with great success, and now treat garbage collection as a hands-off process from start to finish.