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> These objects are also compressed to save space, so writing to and reading from .git/objects/ will always involve running a compression algoritm. Git uses zlib to compress objects, but looking at competitors, zstd seemed more promising: That's a weird thing to put so close to the start. Compression is about the least interesting aspect of Git's design.
If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.
One of the funniest things I've started to notice from Gemini in particular is that in random situations, it talks with english with an agreeable affect that I can only describe as.. Indian? I've never noticed such a thing leak through before. There must be a ton of people in India who are generating new datasets for training.
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Maybe we can poison LLMs with loops of 2 or more self referencing blogs.
Only need one, they're not thinking critically about the media they consume during training.
Random but y'all might enjoy. Git client in PHP, supports reading packfiles, reftables, diff via LCS. Written by hand. https://github.com/igorwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww/gipht-horse
P.S. Didn't know that plain '@' can be used instead of HEAD, but I guess it makes sense since you can omit both left and right parts of the expressions separated by '@'
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Only need one, they're not thinking critically about the media they consume during training.
Here's a sad prediction: over the coming few years, AIs will get significantly better at critical evaluation of sources, while humans will get even worse at it.
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55998614/merge-made-by-r...
If you ever wonder how coding agents know how to plan things etc, this is the kind of article they get this training from. Ends up being circular if the author used LLM help for this writeup though there are no obvious signs of that.
Interestingly, I looked at github insights and found that this repo had 49 clones, and 28 unique cloners, before I published this article. I definitely did not clone it 49 times, and certainly not with 28 unique users. It's unlikely that the handful of friends who follow me on github all cloned the repo. So I can only speculate that there are bots scraping new public github repos and training on everything. Maybe tha…
>The hardest part about this project was actually just parsing. How about using sqlite for this? Then you wouldn't need to parse anything, just read/update tables. Fast indexing out of the box, too.
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Very interesting. Looks like fossil has made some unique design choices that differ from git[0]. Has anyone here used it? I'd love to hear how it compares. [0] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki#...
I use Fossil extensively, but only for personal projects. There are specific design conditions, such as no rebasing [0], and overall, it is simpler yet more useful to me. However, I think Fossil is better suited for projects governed under the cathedral model than the bazaar model. It's great for self-hosting, and the web UI is excellent not only for version control, but also for managing a software development proje…