Re: Incremental Backup of repositories using Git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: May 8, 2025, 20:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20250508202033.GE18229@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <029701dbc054$a6e9af00$f4bd0d00$@nexbridge.com>

On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 04:06:08PM -0400, rsbecker@nexbridge.com wrote:

> As a possible alternative, would some kind of information presented via the proposed
> git blame-tree series (or call it git annotate-tree perhaps) be useful for this enhancement?
> I am not sure what the results will look like, but it might be useful and then cached by
> the backup strategy. I'm grasping at straws, though.

I don't think so. From an efficiency perspective, your best git-aware backup really is going to be packfiles representing slices of history, depending on each other. I.e., bundles or something approximating them.

-Peff