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Comment by nh2

No, of course not.

As the article explains, "over 600 PB" = 25M code checkouts * 25 GB "compressed working copy".

So "fetched naively" here means doing a full `git clone` on every need for `git checkout`, which of course nobody should do, nor does that refer to "code that needs changing daily".

parent nh2 18 days ago

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