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You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
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Hacker News | Sep 16, 2026 | evacchi
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Wonder why that is. translation layer on top of object storage to make Git speak object storage. Objects are placed randomly within packfiles and other attempts at storing Git in object storage end up having problems here. Together this makes Git repository storage in Tigris a columnar store.
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