I’m not saying the access pattern isn’t real. I’m saying it largely doesn’t matter in practice.

If Git repos were routinely terabytes in size, this would be a much harder problem. But the vast majority of repos are <1GB, and at that scale caching dominates. Even with imperfect locality, you can cache enough of the working set that those reads don’t turn into s3 round trips.

In a low-latency environment, I haven’t found filesystem round trips themselves to be an issue for Git workloads either.