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This is only true for recent commits: as you accumulate commits, garbage collections are performed of the loose blobs and the remaining generation is stored into a pack file, which has been carefully ordered by similarity and stored using a delta-encoding. For more information, this chapter from one of the popular online books about git might suffice.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Packfiles

(edit: After I started responding to your comment, you edited your comment to link to the same book! I recommend you continue reading the later chapters: "you'll never believe how it works" ;P.)

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