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fiddlerwoaroof on July 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Highlights from Git 2.28

Reduced disk space usage for large repositories. And a convenient way to manage all your clones

jayd16 on July 28, 2020 [–]

I guess it reduces duplicating the history? Large files are by far the bulk of what I personally deal with so it don't think there's a real difference for me but I could see it helping.

fiddlerwoaroof on July 28, 2020 | [–]

Yeah, it only stores the objects in the .git directory once.

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