[RFC] Blob format

[Aaron Bentley]

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Matthieu Moy wrote:
> It can also be a complement to knits. I think git has something
> similar. For example, you could keep the knit archive, and
> periodically add a big "bundle" or "blob" in addition to this. This
> way, branch would do

I have doubts about whether that combination would work well.  Because
blobs scale with number of revisions, and knits scale with number of
files + 2, it seems as though a hybrid approach could easily require
more round trips than either pure-blob or pure-knit.

Aaron
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