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LoganDark | 2 days ago

No... Basically all git servers have to generate the file contents, diffs etc. on-demand because they don't store static pages for every single possible combination of view parameters. Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental. You could pre-render everything statically, but that could take up gigabytes or more for any repo of non-trivial size.

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KolmogorovComp|2 days ago

> Git repositories also typically don't store full copies of all versions of a file that have ever existed either; they're incremental

This is wrong. Git does store full copies.