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Re:CDC File Transfer by est on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:23AM (#45434884)
I wonder if this could be applied to git.

The git blob was hashed with a header of decimal length, and you change a slight bit of content, you have to calculate the hash from start again.

Something like CDC would improve this alot.

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Re:CDC File Transfer by pabs3 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:03AM (#45435439)
Backup tools like restic/borg do this, I wonder if anyone has used them to replace git yet.
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Re:CDC File Transfer by oac on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @02:34AM (#45434954)
It's done in xet as a replacement for git lfs: https://huggingface.co/blog/from-files-to-chunks
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