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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
	Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:06:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070922020632.GB8327@muzzle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709220040450.28395@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,

Hi,

> 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.

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.

-- 
Eric Wong

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22  2:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21 10:51 Git as a filesystem Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 11:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-21 11:41   ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 12:53     ` Karl Hasselström
2007-09-21 13:28       ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:41         ` Michael Poole
2007-09-21 14:38         ` jlh
2007-09-21 17:29         ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-21 23:56           ` Martin Langhoff
2007-09-22  3:09             ` Sam Vilain
2007-09-21 13:22     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 13:35       ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:45         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 15:46         ` Christian von Kietzell
2007-09-21 23:33       ` Eric Wong
2007-09-21 23:42         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-22  2:06           ` Eric Wong [this message]
2007-09-22 12:06             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-21 14:22   ` Miklos Vajna
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-09-21 10:48 Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 11:28 ` Muhammad Tayyab
2007-09-21 11:37   ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 11:46     ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 12:51       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-21 13:30         ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:53           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-21 15:04     ` Adrian Bunk

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