[twic]

But what on earth is this measuring?

  oxen push origin main # ~308.98 secs

Where does that push to? Does this benchmark really just measure how well-provisioned various different VC-funded websites currently are?

I think a proper benchmark here would be install the server parts of Oxen, Git-LFS, etc on the same machine, and then time how long it takes to commit and push the same dataset from some other machine.

Although of course given that we live in an age where people expect to upload their immense datasets to the cloud for some reason, a "proper" benchmark might not be a relevant one. I'm not sure what a really good benchmark of that would be.

[gschoeni]

Will add a local network benchmark as well! Many reasons to upload your data to the cloud...but agree that there are use cases where you might just want to version on your local network.