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git blame is always expansive to compute; and precomputing (or caching) it for every revision of every file is going to consume a lot of storage.

• Kinrany 2y ago
  Precomputing git blame should take the same order of magnitude of storage as the repository itself. Same number of lines for each revision, same number of lines changed in every commit.
  • Kinrany 2y ago
    Should be easy to write a script that takes a branch and constructs a mirror branch with git blame output. Then compare storage space used.
  • nurettin 2y ago
    It is more fun to fight LLMs rather than trying to create magical unicorn caches that work for every endpoint.
• benmmurphy 2y ago
  I guess for computationally expensive things the only real option is to put it behind a login. I’m sure this is something SourceHut doesn’t want to do but maybe it’s their only decent option.
  • progval 2y ago
    On SourceHut, git blame is available while logged out, but the link to blame pages is only showed to logged-in users. That may be a recent change to fight scrapers.