Generate repo database in memory
Python's tarfile can actually generate tarfile's in memory which makes it possible to remove the terrible chdir/cwd code and do less I/O.
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Python's tarfile can actually generate tarfile's in memory which makes it possible to remove the terrible chdir/cwd code and do less I/O.