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Git actually starts compacting your object database and creating super-efficient delta-compressed packfiles after a bit. You can still throw object files in the
by nfarina 15y ago
Git actually starts compacting your object database and creating super-efficient delta-compressed packfiles after a bit. You can still throw object files in there afterwards though, and it doesn't change the basic principles of operation.
- tedunangst 15y agoSuper-efficient delta-compressed packfiles of zip files are not, in fact, super-efficient.
- nfarina 15y agoAh ha, yes, you are correct - but packfiles combine multiple blobs together to benefit from additional compression that you couldn't achieve by compressing each individually.