Can we haz GitSafe plz?

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I think Pijul is a better contender for decentralized networks than git.

  1. Git takes a whole snapshot of workspace for each commit
  2. then it tries to find matching objects at the storage level and stores just the diffs to save space
  3. thus creates one compressed file which changes each time it’s recreated (git gc or autogc), resulting in a completely new file containing all the repository data, which can’t be efficiently stored (deduplication) on a content-addressable-network (immutable data)
  1. Pijul stores a patch for each commit
  2. then stores these patches as files at the storage level
  3. thus one additional commit is just one additional file => old patch files don’t change thus they can be efficiently stored on a content-addressable-network

tldr: git compresses all data to one file at the storage level, resulting in non-deduplicatable data. pijul works with compressed data (patches) at all levels, thus all patches can be stored as self-contained units allowing deduplication.

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