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brigandish 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQ...

For a distributed VCS, what would be the need for such things? Even if it were a really big project, how many writes could be going on that this becomes a bottleneck? I don't see it but maybe you have a situation in mind.

lelanthran 4 months ago | [–]

In the current environment, even a distributed VCS may have concurrent agents modifying it on different branches.

ImGajeed76 4 months ago | [–]

The problem i faced is mostly importing large repos. But normal use should be fine.

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