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LackOfGravitas

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    Comment #40929360

    Interesting. I'm always skeptical of blog posts companies make about themselves, but I can definitely see how block-level deduplication could be a huge help. I wonder how it scales…

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    Comment #38874639

    Fair. I do have an archive folder in the home directory. Also, probably 70% of the space is in a large workspace/ folder that has different programming projects or open source tool…

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    Comment #38873411

    I think the only size limitations would be the size of the data store -- my 1.2 TB home folder with 1.2 million or so files becomes around 400GB data store on my NAS and around 200…

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    Comment #38873386

    Currently, it takes probably 20-30 minutes to run, which does include all the data deduplication. It was a bit more for the first round, but still under an hour. On my home folder,…

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    Comment #38293582

    Is it easy to try this out on an existing repo and then uninstall it and go back to using git LFS if I don't like it? Can this be done without messing up my repo?

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    Comment #36540006

    Makes sense! I'll try it out.

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    Comment #36539020

    Interesting idea, and I can see the potential. However, other tools I've seen that try to "simplify" git end up breaking some desirable aspect of the git workflow, making it far le…