Building objgit: A git server that stores repositories directly in Tigris object storage
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Xe Iaso
Summary
The article describes the author's experimental project of building a git server (objgit) that stores repositories directly in Tigris object storage, bypassing traditional disk storage, databases, and even the git binary itself. The author explains how they used the billy filesystem abstraction layer to make a Tigris bucket behave like a filesystem, enabling a shell interpreter and git operations to work seamlessly. The project evolved from porting agent sandboxes to Go, and the author discovered they were using billy far beyond its original intended use case (which was for go-git). The result is a single-binary git server that stores everything in object storage.
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Hacker NewsBuilding objgit: A git server that stores repositories directly in Tigris object storagetigrisdata.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledWhat happens if I just point a git server at an object storage bucket?
The whole trick of the project was teaching a Tigris bucket to act enough like a filesystem that a shell interpreter and its tools couldn't tell the difference.
objgit is a single-binary git server that stores repositories directly in Tigris — no disk, no git binary, no database. To my shock and horror, it worked.
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