Comment by digikata
1 day ago
I would think that git would need a parallel storage scheme for binaries. Something that does binary chunking and deduplication between revisions, but keeps the same merkle referencing scheme as everything else.
1 day ago
I would think that git would need a parallel storage scheme for binaries. Something that does binary chunking and deduplication between revisions, but keeps the same merkle referencing scheme as everything else.
> binary chunking and deduplication
Are there many binaries that people would store in git where this would actually help? I assume most files end up with compression or some other form of randomization between revisions making deduplication futile.
A lot in the game and visual art industries.
2-3x reduction in repository size compared to Git LFS in this test:
https://xethub.com/blog/benchmarking-the-modern-development-...
I don't know, it's all probability in the dataset that makes one optimization strategy better over another. Git annex iirc does file level dedupe. That would take care of most of the problem if you're storing binaries that are compressed or encrypted. It's a lot of work to go beyond that, and probably one reason no one has bothered with git yet. But borg and restic both do chunked dedupe I think.
It would likely require more tooling.
Xet uses block level deduplication.