You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles

6 comments

• 0bytes 9 minutes ago
  4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?
• mgrandl 1 hour ago
  Sweet. It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done. Would be so much nicer if gitlab/forgejo/gitea/… supported object storage for everything. Currently you always still need a filesystem for git repos.
• hanwenn 17 minutes ago
  "Finally delta objects should be stored as their own object in the packfile instead of slapped onto the end of the object it’s a delta of so that you don’t have to read the object and its deltas to read the object in the first place."

  Author thinks that delta encoding is there for no reason. Good luck, kid.
• mmastrac 1 hour ago
  Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.
• jauntywundrkind 58 minutes ago
  After Git At Any Scale there's been a lot of these! (https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141)

  https://github.com/Nickforall/walgit-elixir https://github.com/tobi/walgit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420598) https://github.com/tuist/micelio/
• jiggawatts 40 minutes ago
  Next: replace whole-file hashes with a Merkle Patricia tree hash and enable BitTorrent-like distribution protocols on top, not to mention the deduplication advantages!