From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Ben Clifford <benc@hawaga.org.uk>,
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Handling large files with GIT
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:17:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F113A5.2080506@f2s.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602122058260.3691@g5.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Taking advantage of those kinds of things is what makes git good at
> handling software projects. But it wouldn't necessarily be how you lay out
> a mail directory, for example. An automated file store might want to
> spread out the changes on purpose.
Indeed...
Im curious as to why anyone would want to use a SCM tool on a mail dir
anyway - surely no-one edits their pasnt mails and needs to keep logs?
surely incremental backups would be a better way to manage something
like this ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-13 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 9:14 Handling large files with GIT Martin Langhoff
2006-02-08 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-08 16:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-08 17:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-08 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-08 21:20 ` Florian Weimer
2006-02-08 22:35 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-13 1:26 ` Ben Clifford
2006-02-13 3:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 4:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 23:17 ` Ian Molton [this message]
2006-02-13 23:19 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-14 18:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-02-14 19:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 21:21 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-14 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-14 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 0:40 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-15 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 4:03 ` Sam Vilain
2006-02-15 2:07 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-15 2:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 2:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 3:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 9:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-15 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-15 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16 3:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-16 3:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-16 20:32 ` Fredrik Kuivinen
2006-02-13 5:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-02-13 6:07 ` Keith Packard
2006-02-14 0:07 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-13 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-13 4:40 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-09 4:54 ` Greg KH
2006-02-09 5:38 ` Martin Langhoff
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