From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: git-repack & big files Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:48:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2CB3F5.106@cfl.rr.com> References: <1294731438.3300.973.camel@voubian.casa> <4D2C7AA9.1020506@cfl.rr.com> <1294772603.3435.67.camel@voubian.casa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Pietro Battiston X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 11 20:47:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PckBm-0007fm-6r for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:47:30 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932637Ab1AKTrZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:47:25 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:55288 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932378Ab1AKTrY (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:47:24 -0500 Authentication-Results: cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com smtp.user=psusi@cfl.rr.com; auth=pass (PLAIN) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=pepdxKapwHuwCZNFD5uob2wvham6E+RljB0uXw08FdQ= c=1 sm=0 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=pg4Dpxby4z7sZisWVyJ9NA==:17 a=Dz5xeKug-8cZugKJxd8A:9 a=pRp3DInPaRQOGySiC_IKkfNFV-gA:4 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=pg4Dpxby4z7sZisWVyJ9NA==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 72.242.190.170 Received: from [72.242.190.170] ([72.242.190.170:2603] helo=[10.1.1.235]) by cdptpa-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTPA id 66/48-19545-AC3BC2D4; Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:47:22 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <1294772603.3435.67.camel@voubian.casa> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/11/2011 2:03 PM, Pietro Battiston wrote: > 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. I'm curious what features of git you find helpful for this purpose. The history log doesn't seem useful at all. Generally mail is only added, and sometimes deleted, never changed, so it also does not seem useful to keep multiple revisions. If you really want that though, rdiff-backup will do that and keep the old revisions delta compressed. I use Maildir instead of mbox and do a nightly incremental backup of the whole system with dump, so any mail I might loose by accident I can pull from the backup if it is older than a day, and I never delete mail.