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This recent post that made it to the front page talks a lot about approaches GitHub has taken over its history:

https://cursor.com/blog/git-at-any-scale

I ended up finding my own answer (after reading the above).

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/26/git-in-postgres.html

Following another recent theme, the answer for Forgejo seems to be - just use Postgres.

That approach was mentioned in the Cursor article. If a KV cache like Redis is too slow for that to work with large repositories, I don't see how Postgres could possibly work.

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