alt Hacker NewsIt can get even smaller when loose objects get packed into packfiles because of delta compression: a whole bunch of identical files can be stored in minimal overhead over storing one copy.
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bewuethr • today at 8:15 AM
I think the 250 files all containing just "foo" are stored as a single blob, too, even before creating a packfile.
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Right, packfile size is really what matters in the long-term. A tiny change to a file in the short term just adds the whole thing again (compressed), whereas a tiny change in a packfile shouldn't add much at all. Unless you've got very limited disk space, the long-term is the only size that matters.