On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Peter Stahlir wrote: > > > 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? Indeed. But how much does this represents, once compressed, compared to the rest? I doubt it is significant enough for the trouble. Nicolas - 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
