From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
To: Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
Subject: Re: git-repack & big files
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:12:40 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19558451.124576.1294773160655.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294772603.3435.67.camel@voubian.casa>
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pietro Battiston" <me@pietrobattiston.it>
> To: "Phillip Susi" <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 2:03:23 PM
> Subject: Re: git-repack & big files
>
> > > 2) do I have any hope that in one way or another my 500+ MB
> > > mailboxes
> > > with relatively small changes over time are archived smartly
> > > (=diffs) by
> > > git at the current state of development? If I understand
> > > correctly, the
> > > project git-bigfiles³ would just "solve" my problems by not making
> > > differences of big files.
> >
> > Git is not a backup tool. You should use rsync rdiff-backup instead.
>
> That's unfortunate - I think I prefer to split my mailboxes than to
> loose many of the nice features git provides. But thanks a lot for the
> suggestion.
Off topic: Do you have the option to change to a solution that uses MailDir as the storage format rather than mbox?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir
Stephen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-11 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-11 7:37 git-repack & big files Pietro Battiston
2011-01-11 15:43 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-11 19:03 ` Pietro Battiston
2011-01-11 19:12 ` Stephen Bash [this message]
2011-01-11 19:48 ` Phillip Susi
2011-01-13 8:00 ` Pietro Battiston
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