From: Peter Stahlir Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:35:39 GMT Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > > I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would be. :) > > It would be just as big as the non gitified storage on disk. > > The space saving with git comes from efficient delta storage of > _versioned_ files, i.e. multiple nearly identical versions of the same > file where the stored delta is only the small difference between the > first full version and subsequent versions. Unless you plan on storing > many different Debian versions together, you won't benefit from any > delta at all. And since Debian packages are already compressed, git > won't be able to compress them further. > > So don't waste your time. The 252GB stem from the fact that there are more than 10 architectures. I guess the /usr/share/doc of all architectures could be deltified (as could be all files that are architecture-independent) Right?