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Notes from building Git for large files.
Product decisions, system boundaries, and lessons from making object storage behave like a dependable Git remote.
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01Sep 1, 2026
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Git for large files at any scale
Crab keeps Git in charge of history while content-defined chunks, lazy hydration, and your own object store carry the large-file data plane.
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10 min readBeginnerDevelopers, ML teams, game studios, data engineers, and platform teams evaluating large-file version control.Read article