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- Or just use https://github.com/Barre/ZeroFS
Works pretty awesomely with git workloads, even Linux sized trees.
by pierrebarre - 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.by mgrandl
- 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!by jiggawatts
- 4th submission in 3 days. Is this a marketing spam campaign?by 0bytes
- I recently found https://github.com/enroute-sh/enroute which also does git on object storage
I found the idea of a git-proxy interesting where you start with proxying an existing forge and then later adopt the object storage backend
by flowingfocus - This is exactly what GitSocial does: https://gitsocial.org/. Plus it can generate static sites for repositories, letting you serve it all from a bucket.by delf
- 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/
- `git update-server-info` is your friend; it generates the auxiliary files needed to allow clients to make range requests against packs.
For example: https://andrewaylett.github.io/rgitweb/ is a repository viewer that runs against a static git repo. It doesn't care what you're storing the pack in, just that the data is there to make the right range requests.
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