[irjustin]

git works off of snapshots which are blobs, and blobs are compressed very effectively, but if your file takes 30KB compressed then yes, 30KB compressed is being added for every white space added[0].

Another way to think of it, if it was diffs, if you had 1000 commits, getting to the 'head' would take forever because it had to replay all the commits diffs just to get there.

Yes, you could combine diffs & snapshots, but that in itself is a tricky complexity in an already very complex system.

[0] https://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.ht...