Shortcomings

This file is for tracking features that are less well implemented or less powerful than their Git counterparts for one reason or another.

The link extension can be read, but won't be written. This effectively disables the use of a split index once a mutating operation is run on it with gitoxide.

Fetches using protocol V1 and stateful connections, i.e. ssh, git, file, may hang
- This can be fixed by making response parsing.
- Note that this does not affect cloning, which works fine.

Packfiles use memory maps
- Even though they are comfortable to use and fast, they squelch IO errors.
- Potential remedy: We could generalize the Pack to make it possible to work on in-memory buffers directly. That way, one would initialize a Pack by reading the whole file into memory, thus not squelching IO errors at the expense of latency as well as memory efficiency.
Packfiles cannot load files bigger than 2^31 or 2^32 on 32-bit systems
- As these systems cannot address more memory than that.
- Potential remedy: implement a sliding window to map and unmap portions of the file as needed.
  - However, those who need to access big packs on these systems would rather resort to Git itself, allowing our implementation to be simpler and potentially more performant.
Objects larger than 32 bits cannot be loaded on 32-bit systems
- In-memory representations objects cannot handle objects greater than the amount of addressable memory.
- This will not affect Git LFS though.

Object replacements are read once upon opening the repository from their refs and changes to these won't be picked up.

gix-url might be more restrictive than what Git allows as for the most part, it uses a browser grade URL parser.
- Thus far there is no proof for this, and as potential remedy we could certainly re-implement exactly what Git does to handle its URLs.

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