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psychoslaveyesterday at 11:11 PM1 replyview on HN

I wonder what tradeoffs make Git faster for large repository. Though for a long time that excluded large blobs.


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PunchyHamstertoday at 12:19 AM

Git has format dedicated for storing snapshots of trees and diffing them, fossil just uses SQLite and few tricks to keep size small