How Git Efficiently Transmits Your Changes

2020-09-04 10 min read Programmer stuff Software Tech Tech explained Teknikal_Domain Unable to load comment count

So here’s a fun one. Have you ever noticed that even for huge changes to a repository, a git push only sends over a few kilobytes, maybe a few megabytes at most? If you’re familiar with the internals of git, you know that git stores an entire copy of the new file on commit. So how are these changes so small?