On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:06:08PM -0400, rsbecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > As a possible alternative, would some kind of information presented via the proposed > git blame-tree series (or call it git annotate-tree perhaps) be useful for this enhancement? > I am not sure what the results will look like, but it might be useful and then cached by > the backup strategy. I'm grasping at straws, though. I don't think so. From an efficiency perspective, your best git-aware backup really is going to be packfiles representing slices of history, depending on each other. I.e., bundles or something approximating them. -Peff