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by Kinrany 456 days ago
Precomputing git blame should take the same order of magnitude of storage as the repository itself. Same number of lines for each revision, same number of lines changed in every commit.
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Should be easy to write a script that takes a branch and constructs a mirror branch with git blame output. Then compare storage space used.
It is more fun to fight LLMs rather than trying to create magical unicorn caches that work for every endpoint.