[znnajdla]

This was really thought provoking — it made me realize that Git just happens to use a filesystem for persistence, but doesn’t necessarily have to. A POSIX filesystem might not even be the best way to store a git repo. Makes me wonder: what else could speak Git + POSIX? Redis? Postgres? IPFS is a fun one — it’s already content addressed.

[xena]

IPFS would be much better for something like LFS support than git repos itself. Git repos are very mutable bits of state and IPFS is best for immutable state. I'm aware of mutable IPFS pointers, but I think the best bet currently is to use immutable things for immutable objects and mutable things for mutable objects.

[TonyStr]

I've seen a few people on HackerNews swear by Fossil ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software) ) which uses SQLite as the backend instead of the filesystem. There are a few other approaches as well