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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by Cthulhu_ on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:24PM (#37297510)
That just sounds like adding another problem though. A filesystem (and git) already is a database, and plain files can be read and managed more easily than a possibly corruptible binary file. Plus, you'd lose history, unless you add more complexity to add history.

I mean I don't know if they ever needed history but, just saying. You get certain things for free by using a filesystem / git.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's... by melx on Monday August 28, 2023 @02:10PM (#37298209)
You commit the sqlite dump file(?) to git and have the history...

I dunno but there are folks who would put anything in git. I work with someone who manages to exceed disk space of company's Gitlab instance by git adding everything. The disk is full again once a month.

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