Re: Git as a filesystem

From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Date: Sep 22, 2007, 02:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070922020632.GB8327@muzzle>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709220040450.28395@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

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> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

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Eric Wong