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Re:Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos by TillE on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @01:31PM (#33973532)
It's a fundamentally bad idea because of how any DVCS works. You really don't want to be dragging around gigabytes of obsolete data forever.

Something like git-lfs is the appropriate solution. You need a little bit of centralization.

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Re:Show HN: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos by IshKebab on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @02:09PM (#33974130)
Because of how Git's current implementation of DVS works. There's nothing fundamental about it. Git already supports partial clones and on-demand checkouts in some ways, it's just not very ergonomic.

All that's really needed is a way to mark individual files as lazily fetched from a remote only when needed. LFS is a hacky substandard way to emulate that behaviour. It should be built in to Git.

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