Re: Handling large files with GIT

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 8, 2006, 22:35 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90602081435x49e53a1cgdc56040a19768adb@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87slqty2c8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>

On 2/9/06, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> In your mbox case, you should simply try Maildir.  The tree object
> (which lists all files in the Maildir folder) will still be rather
> large (about 40 to 50 bytes per message stored), though.

I did suggest maildir, where GIT is bound to do well as the content of the emails doesn't change but they just move around a lot. Though yes, trees are going to be nasty.

But the interesting case I gues is the general one of large files changing slowly. My guess is that supporting delta transfers in the git protocol would make it a lot more manageable. For local storage git isn't so bad, and the problem is perhaps harder to resolve.

cheers,

martin