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Re: [PATCH] packed delta git

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CMChris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Date
May 19, 2005, 18:53 UTC
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<200505191453.21566.mason@suse.com>
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<20050519183810.GF8105@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
On Thursday 19 May 2005 14:38, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
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> Hello Chris,
>
> > size (du -sh .git)              2.5G                  227M
>
> wow that beats bitkeeper in size. What is missing to actual use such a
> approach in a distributed environment?

It's not quite fair to compare with bitkeeper, since my changeset comments are only the name of the bk->cvs patch, and I've only got 28k changesets vs bk's 60k or so.

In terms of actually making use of this, we need to deal with the hard linked files during push/pull. This means using -H on rsync and teaching the push/pull code about packed files.

git-pack needs to be able to unpack/undelta files so that people can clean a tree.

git-fsck-cache needs to understand packed files and deltas.
-chris
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