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packfiles
- Feb 11, 2025 Packfiles, Delta Chains, and What Garbage Collection Actually Deletes How loose objects become delta-compressed packs, why delta chains are depth-limited, and how reachability decides what survives a prune. software engineering
- May 8, 2024 Packfiles and Delta Chains: How Git Stores Similar Objects Once The pack and index file formats, how delta instructions rebuild an object from a base, and what chain depth costs on read. developer tools
- May 25, 2023 The Fetch Protocol: Wants, Haves, and Thin Packs How a client and server agree on the smallest object set to transfer, how pkt-line framing bounds each message, and why a received pack may not be complete. developer tools