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I would be much more interested if they fully open sourced an S3-compatible git backend that anybody could use with any S3-compatible service. Does such a thin

• uroni 5mo ago
  Yup, https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3 https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3 (disclaimer: never used it)
  • marxism 5mo ago
    Run. I've used it in a product for a couple of thousand repos. The big problem is architectural. Each branch is serialized into a single bundle file. There is no structural sharing of git objects. So each and every branch will download the full history from scratch. So changing branches is as expensive as a fresh clone. If you combine this with a real user's desire for images/diagrams of any kind, then boom, massive slowness. There are also two concurrency bugs which the maintainer refuses to acknowledge.