Hi, On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote: > Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. Umm. Regular operation is not affected, since I (add and) commit only when I weeded out all those spams and other unwanted mail. > 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. The most efficient way would be to have a mailer backend accessing the database, and then not have a working directory, methinks (especially with these amounts of mail I am juggling ATM). Time forbids working on this, though. Ciao, Dscho - 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
