Re: Handling large files with GIT

> That said, I think git could do much better if the layout was optimized 
> for git. For example, in the maildir thing, there's two issues: the flat 
> directory structure is sub-optimal, but the other thing seems to be that 
> maildir apparently saves metadata in the filename.
> 
> Saving meta-data in the filename should actually work wonderfully well 
> with git, but both merging and git-diff-tree consider the filename to be 
> the "index", so they optimize for that. You could do indexing the other 
> way around, and consider the contents to be the index (and the filename is 
> the "status"), but that's obviously not sane for a sw project, even if it 
> might be exactly what you want to do for mail handling.