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Deduping files is easy.

• ahartmetz 6d ago
  It's also useless if every tool lives in its own copy of the universe - there'd be little to no identical files. It also won't work for version control databases, assuming use of a distributed VCS.
  • forrestthewoods 6d ago
    Yes it would require a global blob store across reps. That seems like a good design choice. I don’t know what you mean by “ won't work for version control databases, assuming use of a distributed VCS.”
    • ahartmetz 5d ago
      The .git directory does not contain plain files, so the same files may look different in different .git directories. But yeah, you could make it work if you designed for it.
      • forrestthewoods 5d ago
        Yeah Git is super mediocre. But the hypothesis is that you could build something that doesn’t suck!