On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:16:02AM +0800, bill lam wrote: > I would like to use git to track some database files of sizes from 1MB > to 50MB. I want to know does git compress them for storage or not. Yes, git will compress them via zlib. > If so, what will be the expected compression ratio. Those files > normally compressed to 25% of original size using zip. Then I would expect the same ratio, since I believe zip and zlib both use the "deflate" algorithm. Note, however, that git will also do delta compression between versions. So storing N versions of a file should be no _worse_ than zipping and keeping those N versions. But if the database files have small enough changes from version to version (which depends on the database format, and how much the on-disk structure changes for each update) then it will compress even more. -Peff -- 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
