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      <title>Where Sley beats Git, and where it doesn&apos;t</title>
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      <description>Sley is a Rust Git engine built to be embedded. Against the real git binary it runs the everyday commands faster: log at half the time on every repo, commit and the mid-size reads in half, with a lighter memory footprint at every repo size. Every result is checked against Git&apos;s own output. A benchmark, honestly.</description>
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      <description>Cleaned-up history was always a story we told reviewers. Humans curated the messy middle out before it ever became a commit. Agents don&apos;t. The unit of work has to change.</description>
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