Re: Handling large files with GIT

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 13, 2006, 23:19 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90602131519l1d281a32o80dbc5621fbf00af@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43F113A5.2080506@f2s.com>

On 2/14/06, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> wrote:

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> Im curious as to why anyone would want to use a SCM tool on a mail dir
> anyway - surely no-one edits their pasnt mails and needs to keep logs?
>
> surely incremental backups would be a better way to manage something
> like this ?

Well, the maildir arrangement is friendlier to something content-smart like git than to something content-stupid like a backup tool. Files inside a maildir change name/location to reflect changes in status, but their content tends to remain the same.

git does great in this scenario, except for the "dealing with a bazillion files" part of it.

cheers,

martin