Ted Nyman – High Performance Git

gnabgib 77 points 12 comments April 28, 2026
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wadefletch

ted nyman: #1 most knowledgable college football fan in sf and also git which makes more sense i guess

snthpy

I've been wanting to ask this: Why isn't git clone --depth 1 ... the default? I would guess that for at least 90% of the repos I clone, I just want to install something. Even for the rest, I might hack on the code but seldom look into the history. If I do then I could do a `git fetch` at that point and save the bandwidth and disk space the rest of the time.

normie3000

> LFS adds its own operational overhead. Seemingly seconds on every remote-touching command, even on a very small repo.

raphinou

Perfect read for the project I'm working on, which uses git as an auditable backend storage! (The project is an open source multisig signoff solution: all multisig definitions and signatures collected are stored in a git repo you can clone, see https://asfaload.com/ )

anitil

I'm only on to chapter two and already it's explained some plumbing details that I somehow have missed all these years. This is great

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