On 1/11/2011 2:37 AM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > Since it perfectly does what it is not optimized to do... I then wonder > when it does not do what it declares: if I run git-repack with the > parameter --window-memory set to, for instance, "100m", it takes > hundreds and hundreds of MB of memory until it runs out of memory, fails > a malloc and aborts. > So, two questions: --window-memory reduces the window size to try and stay under the limit, but the window size can not be reduced below 1. > 2) do I have any hope that in one way or another my 500+ MB mailboxes > with relatively small changes over time are archived smartly (=diffs) by > git at the current state of development? If I understand correctly, the > project git-bigfiles would just "solve" my problems by not making > differences of big files. Git is not a backup tool. You should use rsync rdiff-backup instead. -- 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