To be honest, it doesn't look like they put much additional thought into the problem at all. git-filters are going to be the limiting factor for performance he

To be honest, it doesn't look like they put much additional thought into the problem at all. git-filters are going to be the limiting factor for performance here and depending on your filesize might still cause a considerable slowdown. I would have liked to see a solution with patching git and `sendfile` myself. See my other comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9345242 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9345242