On 05/02/13 17:57, David Malcolm wrote: > On Tue, 2013-02-05 at 13:02 +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote: >> On Monday 04 February 2013 22:37:45 David Malcolm wrote: >>> Content-addressed storage: they're named by SHA-1 sum of their contents, >>> similar to how git does it, so if the bulk of the files don't change, >>> they have the same SHA-1 sum and are only stored once. See e.g.: >>> http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/static-analysis/2013-01-30/python-ethtool >>> -0.7-4.fc19.src.rpm/static-analysis/sources/ I probably should gzip them as >>> well. >> >> This can indeed save some space. I really like the idea. Maybe using a true >> git store would give you additional reduction of space requirements thanks to >> using the delta compression. > > Interesting. I had thought that git purely stored compressed files and > eschewed the idea of deltas, but it does indeed store deltas sometimes: > http://git-scm.com/book/ch9-4.html git makes for surprisingly good storage (it's just a pity about the UI); for example (ab)use see http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/What-is-bibisect-And-what-is-it-doing-in-my-office-td3572953.html -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
