Re: Git as a filesystem

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

quoted

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