You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles (tigrisdata.com)
41 pointsby evacchi3 days ago11 comments
0bytes 2 hours ago
4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?
gjvc an hour ago
it's a shit website with awful fonts, certainly
mgrandl 3 hours ago
Sweet. It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done. Would be so much nicer if gitlab/forgejo/gitea/… supported object storage for everything. Currently you always still need a filesystem for git repos.
throwaway7356 41 minutes ago
It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient.
Yes, it was not "object storage", but Git can be served from a dumb http server as static files. Now someone figured out that object storage can also serve static files via http. Wow!
eru 3 minutes ago
On Linux, Fuse is your friend. See eg https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/git-snap-fs
jauntywundrkind 3 hours ago
After Git At Any Scale there's been a lot of these! (https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348141)
https://github.com/Nickforall/walgit-elixir https://github.com/tobi/walgit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420598) https://github.com/tuist/micelio/
mmastrac 3 hours ago
Nice. I saw some git-on-durable-objects projects but I'd so much prefer a straight object storage option.
jiggawatts 2 hours ago
Next: replace whole-file hashes with a Merkle Patricia tree hash and enable BitTorrent-like distribution protocols on top, not to mention the deduplication advantages!
hanwenn 2 hours ago
"Finally delta objects should be stored as their own object in the packfile instead of slapped onto the end of the object it’s a delta of so that you don’t have to read the object and its deltas to read the object in the first place."
Author thinks that delta encoding is there for no reason. Good luck, kid.
uptownhr an hour ago
I created my own as well and powers agentgit.co
scoopertrooper 37 minutes ago
That Claude written page is impenetrable. You really need to write yourself or use a better model.