Re: Git as a filesystem

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 22, 2007, 12:06 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709221304080.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070922020632.GB8327@muzzle>

Hi,

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > 
> > > On a similar note, has anybody experimented with using git to store 
> > > maildirs or news spools?  I'd imagine the quoted portions of most 
> > > message threads could be delta-compressed quite efficiently.
> > 
> > I store all my mail in a git repository.  Works beautifully.  Except 
> > that the buffers on my laptop are constantly full :-( So a simple 
> > commit takes some waiting.
> > 
> > Should be no issue on normal (desktop) machines.
> 
> D'oh.  I already have maildir performance problems on my laptop.

Umm. Regular operation is not affected, since I (add and) commit only when I weeded out all those spams and other unwanted mail.

> I wonder how well only having an index and no commits (no versioning), 
> and manual packing with pack-objects would work.  Packing could be 
> optimized to order objects based on the Message-Id, References, and 
> In-Reply-To headers, too.

The most efficient way would be to have a mailer backend accessing the database, and then not have a working directory, methinks (especially with these amounts of mail I am juggling ATM).

Time forbids working on this, though.

Ciao, Dscho