From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:12:40 GMT
Subject: Re: git-repack & big files
Message-ID: <19558451.124576.1294773160655.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <1294772603.3435.67.camel@voubian.casa>

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pietro Battiston" <me@pietrobattiston.it>
> To: "Phillip Susi" <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:03:23 PM
> Subject: Re: git-repack & big files
>
> > > 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