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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by syntheticlife on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:16PM (#7649682)
FWIW: Every time you modify a file in git, it adds a completely new copy of the file. 100mb text file, 100mb binary file - makes no difference. Modify one line, it's a new 100mb entry in your git repo.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by JelteF on Friday April 25, 2014 @07:58PM (#7649838)
No, git has delta compression. It only saves the changes.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by syntheticlife on Friday April 25, 2014 @08:05PM (#7649852)
Only when git repack operations run.
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB by Skinney on Saturday April 26, 2014 @06:59AM (#7650997)
which you can run at any time. Git also runs a minor gc every time you do a git push, which does do some compression.
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