Re: git-repack & big files

[Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>]

On 1/11/2011 2:37 AM, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> Since it perfectly does what it is not optimized to do... I then wonder
> when it does not do what it declares: if I run git-repack² with the
> parameter --window-memory set to, for instance, "100m", it takes
> hundreds and hundreds of MB of memory until it runs out of memory, fails
> a malloc and aborts.
> So, two questions:

--window-memory reduces the window size to try and stay under the limit,
 but the window size can not be reduced below 1.

> 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.