How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings

The Register reports that Cursor, a SpaceX subsidiary, tackled Git's scalability by rebuilding its repository service, Origin, on top of object storage. Rather than keeping three tightly synchronized NVMe copies like GitHub's "Spokes" approach, Origin writes pushes to Amazon's Simple Storage Service as immutable write‑ahead‑log objects while maintaining a single local reference copy for fast DAG traversal. This lets only one repository stay in sync, allowing the system to ingest changes as quickly as the disk permits and letting repositories live anywhere. If Origin rolls out without outages, other Git managers may give object storage a serious look.

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