When we clone a remote we get we get instead of object packed files which seems to be some performance optimization to reduce size.
But how is this optimization done? If I understand these are binary files with the same contents as the original objects so how exactly they occupy less space? Is the implementation some standard one?
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Maybe you don't get the deleted refs? – biziclop Dec 20 '16 at 20:57
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1Because they are compress? Why `C` tag? – Stargateur Dec 20 '16 at 20:57
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@Stargateur:Git is written in C right? So maybe it is about the way we write binary files in compact manner in C? Some standard pattern? How are they compressed? – Jim Dec 20 '16 at 21:09
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1Possible duplicate of [Are Git's pack files deltas rather than snapshots?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5176225/are-gits-pack-files-deltas-rather-than-snapshots) – Raymond Chen Dec 20 '16 at 21:14
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As I mention in "How does git store files?", Git does use deltas for storage.
The result includes pack files, using a custom implementation of a diff algo for delta computation.
