> > I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would be. :) > > It would be just as big as the non gitified storage on disk. > > The space saving with git comes from efficient delta storage of > _versioned_ files, i.e. multiple nearly identical versions of the same > file where the stored delta is only the small difference between the > first full version and subsequent versions. Unless you plan on storing > many different Debian versions together, you won't benefit from any > delta at all. And since Debian packages are already compressed, git > won't be able to compress them further. > > So don't waste your time. The 252GB stem from the fact that there are more than 10 architectures. I guess the /usr/share/doc of all architectures could be deltified (as could be all files that are architecture-independent) Right? - 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
