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Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about how it works. How does this compare to DVC[1], for instance?

I'll throw in a shameless plug for my tool in this area, Dud[2]. Dud is to DVC what Flask is to Django.

Are the mentioned benchmarks published somewhere?

[1]: https://dvc.org [2]: https://github.com/kevin-hanselman/dud

SnowFS is still at the beginnings, so it will shape over time. For the benchmarks, these are the results on a MacBook-2019 with APFS for a 4GB file:

[git add texture.psd: 20164ms] [snow add texture.psd: 4596ms] [git rm texture.psd: 575ms] [snow rm texture.psd: 111ms] [git checkout HEAD~1: 9739ms] [snow checkout HEAD~1: 1ms]

You might get slightly slower speeds on NTFS for 'add' and 'checkout' but still very performant

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