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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by nfarina on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:12PM (#2970943)
Git actually starts compacting your object database and creating super-efficient delta-compressed packfiles after a bit. You can still throw object files in there afterwards though, and it doesn't change the basic principles of operation.
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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by tedunangst on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:30PM (#2971017)
Super-efficient delta-compressed packfiles of zip files are not, in fact, super-efficient.
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Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think by nfarina on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:45PM (#2971092)
Ah ha, yes, you are correct - but packfiles combine multiple blobs together to benefit from additional compression that you couldn't achieve by compressing each individually.
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