Re: Handling large files with GIT

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2006, 18:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602141953000.22451@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43F113A5.2080506@f2s.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Ian Molton 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?

Point is, if you want to read your email on different computers (like one desktop and one laptop), you are quite well off managing them with git. Of course, you could rsync them from/to the other computer. But rsync is slow once you accumulated enough files, since it has to compare the hashes of tons of files (or file chunks). Git knows if they have changed.

Hth, Dscho