Re: Git as a filesystem

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Peter Stahlir wrote:

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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