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partial-clone
- 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 6, 2023 Reachability, Grace Periods, and Cruft Packs How Git decides an object is garbage, why deletion waits two weeks, and how packs that carry their own modification times changed collection. developer tools