Very excited for git 3.0, and also ready to be immediately frustrated by it :D

`jj` has done git users an amazing service simply by being a more intuitive VCS front-end is possible.

> He said that GitLab hosts one repository with about 20-million references; each time a reference is deleted, the packed-refs file has to be completely rewritten which means rewriting 2GB of data. "To add insult to injury, this repository typically deletes references every couple seconds."

What in the world... why?

And also: why should he or git care?

Storing large files somewhere else is a step towards the centralized model. But it's against initial design principles of git.

Exacly. Git supposed to be DVCS not generic DVFS. Choose right tool for right task. I needed generic DVFS to store my docs, so I wrote one. Its easy and quick and does it job :)

Git needs to track software licenses on a per commit basis.

I don't fully understand what you mean, but you certainly don't want that in git. Git is a source code management system and that's all it should be. Any additional functionality should be added as an add-on (like git-annex) by extending its splendidly extensible replicated content addressed storage system.