Comment by eru
12 days ago
> These objects are also compressed to save space, so writing to and reading from .git/objects/ will always involve running a compression algoritm. Git uses zlib to compress objects, but looking at competitors, zstd seemed more promising:
That's a weird thing to put so close to the start. Compression is about the least interesting aspect of Git's design.
When you are learning, everything is important. I think it is okay to cut the person some slack regarding this.
Yes, probably.
It's just that git does a much more interesting job with compression, actually. Lot's more to learn. They don't compress the snapshots via something like zstd directly, that comes much later after a delta step. (Interestingly, that delta compression step doesn't use the diffs that `git show` shows you for your commits.)