Packfiles as efficient storage

Posted Feb 13, 2026 0:23 UTC (Fri) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: Packfiles as efficient storage by MrWim
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade

They aren't very efficient even for small edits to large text files. I store my shell history in git. The text file is 51MB but the pack file is 2.2GB.