Re: git-repack & big files

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From: "Pietro Battiston" <redacted>
To: "Phillip Susi" <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:03:23 PM
Subject: Re: git-repack & big files

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2) do I have any hope that in one way or another my 500+ MB
mailboxes
with relatively small changes over time are archived smartly
(=diffs) by
git at the current state of development? If I understand
correctly, the
project git-bigfiles³ would just "solve" my problems by not making
differences of big files.

Git is not a backup tool. You should use rsync rdiff-backup instead.

That's unfortunate - I think I prefer to split my mailboxes than to
loose many of the nice features git provides. But thanks a lot for the
suggestion.

Off topic: Do you have the option to change to a solution that uses MailDir as the storage format rather than mbox?
   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir

Stephen