> It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done

https://github.com/awslabs/git-remote-s3

This works seamlessly so you can run `git remote add origin s3://my-git-bucket/my-repo`

It has been done. It is no longer done because it is not efficient.

Yes, it was not "object storage", but Git can be served from a dumb http server as static files. Now someone figured out that object storage can also serve static files via http. Wow!

On Linux, Fuse is your friend. See eg https://github.com/matthiasgoergens/git-snap-fs