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Comment by mrweasel

6 hours ago

How did they even manage to generate a terabyte sized repo, that's crazy. Do they have something written up on how it's structured and why they'd even go that route?

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1718627440  2 hours ago

A terabyte is ~220 thousand books (1000 pages, 50 rows, 100 columns) uncompressed. VCS generally store objects compressed.

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