You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
41 points by evacchi 3 days ago | 10 comments
0bytes 2 hours ago
4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?
replygjvc 2 hours ago
it's a shit website with awful fonts, certainly
replymgrandl 3 hours 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.
replythrowaway7356 33 minutes ago
It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient.
replyYes, 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 3 hours 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)
replyhttps://github.com/Nickforall/walgit-elixir https://github.com/tobi/walgit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420598) https://github.com/tuist/micelio/
mmastrac 4 hours ago
Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.
replyuptownhr 50 minutes ago
I created my own as well and powers agentgit.co
replyscoopertrooper 29 minutes ago
That Claude written page is impenetrable. You really need to write yourself or use a better model.
replyjiggawatts 3 hours 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!
replyhanwenn 2 hours 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."
replyAuthor thinks that delta encoding is there for no reason. Good luck, kid.