Git at Any Scale

meetpateltech 30 points 3 comments August 18, 2026
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ChrisArchitect

Related: Cursor Origin Code Hosting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334209

vegadw

Remember, don't put large objects in cnt, it makes it a real pain later.

biwills

> What about consensus? Elections? Which server is the primary for a given repository? It also doesn't matter! There's no state and no consensus here. Any server can be the primary. All updates to the write-ahead log are synchronized with an atomic compare-and-swap (CAS) operation on S3, so it's always safe for any instance of a repository to receive a push. Again reminded of what an amaizing piece of engineering S3 is (99.999999999% - 11 nines of durability) [1] 1: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DataDu...

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