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I actually encountered a 4TB git repo. After pulling all the binary shit out of it the repo was actually 200MB. Anything that promotes treating git like a filesystem is a bad idea in my opinion.


Yes... and no. The git userspace is horrible for this. The git data model is wonderful.

The git userspace would need to be able to easily:

1. Not grab all files

2. Got grab the whole version history

... and that's more-or-less it. At that point, it'd do great with large files.


Exactly for the giant repo use case, we have a mount feature that will let you get a filesystem mount of any repo at any commit very very quickly.




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