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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 10:36:53 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   check out how quickly #git-pages (and #Grebedoc) can check out a giant git repository without any changes!

   if supported by the server, it retrieves only a single tree from git (no other branches, no tags, no history, no file contents), backfills it from the existing site contents, and then pulls in any missing files from the git server on-demand

   this lets you host very large repositories without straining network and compute (for compression, etc) resources!

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 10:37:33 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     200 MB of git blobs becomes 90 MB of Zstandard-compressed git-pages blobs, and the update completes in a literal blink of an eye

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 10:45:35 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • uis

     @uis git compresses them in transit and storage (i believe, i'm not an expert on git internals) but it doesn't expose that at the boundary, meaning i always get uncompressed data and have to deal with it at least at some stage

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     uis (uis@pone.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 10:45:36 JST uis

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     @whitequark are git blobs uncompressed?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 21:41:10 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Simon Sapin

     @simon PUT, yes, via git-pages-cli or git-pages/action wrapper

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     Simon Sapin (simon@tutut.delire.party)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 21:41:11 JST Simon Sapin

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     @whitequark for a site with a build step, would you push to a branch with normal history or force-push an orphan commit every time? does it make a difference for not retransmitting unchanged files?
     or, skip git entirely and upload to grebedoc with PUT?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 21:42:12 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Simon Sapin

     @simon right now PUT has no way of doing partial updates, but that will be added at a later point

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Dec-2025 22:03:25 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     we don't yet have incremental updates for archive uploads (think re-running an SSG and getting one new file as a result), but that's on the roadmap