38 points evacchi 2 days ago 10 comments
mmastrac 3 hours ago | parent
Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.
mgrandl 2 hours ago | parent
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.
throwaway7356 17 minutes ago | parent
It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient.
Yes, it was not "object storage", but Git can be served from a dumb http server as static files. Now someone figured out that object storage can also serve static files via http. Wow!
jauntywundrkind 2 hours ago | parent
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 2 hours ago | parent
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!
hanwenn 1 hour ago | parent
"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.