Is it safe to compress a folder that is hundreds of GB large and has thousands of other folders nested in it?

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    A fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. (by git-for-windows)

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    Git extension for versioning large files

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    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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