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Has there ever been a consideration for the git file format to allow storage of binary blobs uncompressed?

When I was screwing around with the Git file format, tricks I would use to save space like hard-linking or memory-mapping couldn't work, because data is always stored compressed after a header.

A general copy-on-write approach to save checkout space is presumably impossible, but I wonder what other people have traveled down similar paths have concluded.