----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pietro Battiston" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Phillip Susi" <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:03:23 PM > Subject: Re: git-repack & big files > > > > 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. > > That's unfortunate - I think I prefer to split my mailboxes than to > loose many of the nice features git provides. But thanks a lot for the > suggestion. Off topic: Do you have the option to change to a solution that uses MailDir as the storage format rather than mbox? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir Stephen -- 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