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How small is git-packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?

Subject: How small is git-packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?

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3 messages between Feb 23, 2008 and Feb 23, 2008.

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J.C. Pizarro· Feb 23, 2008, 05:03 UTC · lore

Not all inside of git repository data is source code used for versioning control, but the mailing lists are pushed too into git repo!

Is there any idea of
How small is a git packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?
   ;)
J.C. Pizarro· Feb 23, 2008, 05:34 UTC · re: J.C. Pizarro · lore

Re: How small is git-packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?

On 2008/2/23, J.C. Pizarro <jcpiza@gmail.com>, i wrote:
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> Not all inside of git repository data is source code used for
>  versioning control, but the mailing lists are pushed too into git repo!
>
>  Is there any idea of
>
>  How small is a git packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?
>
>    ;)
>
It thanks to the delta scheme, minimum spanning tree and zlib of the git packer.
1. For git, it's better to commit splitted monthly-files
     (the atomic messages have some redundancy in the replies and forwards).
2. For zip, it's better to zip non-splitted monthly-files.
J.C. Pizarro· Feb 23, 2008, 09:26 UTC · lore

Re: How small is git-packed mailing list vs zipped mailing list?

On 2008/2/23, Thomas Hühn <xf27@arcor.de> wrote:
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>  > Not all inside of git repository data is source code used for
>  > versioning control, but the mailing lists are pushed too into git repo!
>
> Sorry, I just don't see it. Where in the git repository do I find the git
>  mailing list?
Still nowhere but almost humans are still insensible in it.

It's as a knife that is used to cut meat but too is used to cut rope, to cut cables of light, to cut tubes, to attack or to unscrew screws as the actor McGiver does it.

If the diff format (or mails's delta) is extended and improved to simplify '> ' or '| ' columns then the packed can gain much its reduction of size!.

   ;)

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