Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Peter Stahlir wrote: > > > This is was I was looking for. My motivation is whether it is possible > > to run a system, for example Debian on a computer on top of gitfs, > > and then have a huge mirror on it, for example a complete 252GB > > Debian mirror as space efficient as possible. > > > > 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. On a similar note, has anybody experimented with using git to store maildirs or news spools? I'd imagine the quoted portions of most message threads could be delta-compressed quite efficiently. -- Eric Wong - 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
