it would make sense to write a custom importer to import the archive smartly, deduping all the internal files that are the same (look into
ipfs tarfor a preview of what i mean).
Just a alt importer? It should be used in IPFS itself. More than that, IPFS could be compatible with git/pijul: using common objects instead of whole files. Told that when a user suggested both pip, rpm and deb: Software Repository Mirrors may be a good start for IPFS - #3 by MirceaKitsune