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Re:Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never w... by imiric on Friday December 26, 2025 @12:59PM (#46394431)
> GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not?

The answer is in TFA:

> The underlying issue is that git inherits filesystem limitations, and filesystems make terrible databases.

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