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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by murukesh_s on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @12:21AM (#18118769)
Wondering the same. How if used git protocol itself? Not sure how efficient is git, but if it is then it's a relatively easier change
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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by eythian on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @08:27AM (#18120867)
Git doesn't store diffs, it stores whole files.
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Re:More than 9M broken links on Wikipedia are now rescued by rakoo on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:30PM (#18125879)
No, git packs do store base blobs and diffs, which are not visible to end users; the git plumbing hides this and only presents blobs to the user.
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