Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, Hi, > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote: > > > > 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. > > I store all my mail in a git repository. Works beautifully. Except that > the buffers on my laptop are constantly full :-( So a simple commit takes > some waiting. > > Should be no issue on normal (desktop) machines. D'oh. I already have maildir performance problems on my laptop. I wonder how well only having an index and no commits (no versioning), and manual packing with pack-objects would work. Packing could be optimized to order objects based on the Message-Id, References, and In-Reply-To headers, too. -- 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
