From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Glanzmann Subject: Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 13:18:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20070513111841.GA24392@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> References: <20070513093417.GA18546@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: GIT To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun May 13 13:18:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnC6A-0003bj-DG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:18:46 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757214AbXEMLSm (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:18:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757358AbXEMLSm (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:18:42 -0400 Received: from faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ([131.188.30.103]:35499 "EHLO faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757214AbXEMLSm (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 May 2007 07:18:42 -0400 Received: by faui03.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Postfix, from userid 31401) id 7F0CD3F376; Sun, 13 May 2007 13:18:41 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-05-02) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hello, > I think that this setup (have objects remotely) will kill performance > pretty quickly. You have to compare to other blobs in order to find > reasonable deltas... so true. I thought about that myself just after I sent the eMail. > There has been talk about pre-commit scripts which put this > information into a file, and a post-checkout script to resurrect these > metadata, but I haven't seen functional versions of these scripts yet. I thought there is a way to add information without loosing compability with current git versions. But maybe I am just mistaken. Thomas