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Re:Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71%... by 000ooo000 on Thursday March 26, 2026 @02:48AM (#47527334)
So the big token saving was changing a setting that Git already allows you to change?

And does 8ms really matter when you're shunting bulk crap back and forth from the cloud?

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Re:Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71%... by fielding on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:01AM (#47527406)
It goes beyond what I was able to do with git settings alone. Specifically stripping the headers/padding/decorative and it doees it across all output (or well a lot of it).
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