Re: Git as a filesystem

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

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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