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Evolving Git for the Next Decade

48 pointsby AndrewDuckeryesterday at 10:01 PM7 commentsview on HN

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thciprianitoday at 4:26 AM

Very excited for git 3.0, and also ready to be immediately frustrated by it :D

`jj` has done git users an amazing service simply by being a more intuitive VCS front-end is possible.

dataflowtoday at 5:11 AM

> He said that GitLab hosts one repository with about 20-million references; each time a reference is deleted, the packed-refs file has to be completely rewritten which means rewriting 2GB of data. "To add insult to injury, this repository typically deletes references every couple seconds."

What in the world... why?

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Panzerschrektoday at 6:08 AM

Storing large files somewhere else is a step towards the centralized model. But it's against initial design principles of git.

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imtringuedtoday at 10:08 AM

Git needs to track software licenses on a per commit basis.