Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > You can only fill up your disks if > you download tons of movies and/or create tons of VMs. Right, but if you do so, managing your movies and VMs with Git would be really bad idea. Typically, you don't want your backup system to try to diff each movie with each other to save space. > Just make sure your backup/syncing software has an expiration > algorithm so you don't end up storing *all* the historical copies. And this is where Git will be really bad. Removing past revisions means editing history, and while Git knows how to edit history, syncing after doing that will be terrible. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html