From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:35:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT
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