Re: Git as a filesystem

["Peter Stahlir" <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>]

> > I wonder how big a deltified Debian mirror in one pack file would be. :)
>
> It would be just as big as the non gitified storage on disk.
>
> The space saving with git comes from efficient delta storage of
> _versioned_ files, i.e. multiple nearly identical versions of the same
> file where the stored delta is only the small difference between the
> first full version and subsequent versions.  Unless you plan on storing
> many different Debian versions together, you won't benefit from any
> delta at all. And since Debian packages are already compressed, git
> won't be able to compress them further.
>
> So don't waste your time.

The 252GB stem from the fact that there are more than 10 architectures.
I guess the /usr/share/doc of all architectures could be deltified (as could
be all files that are architecture-independent)

Right?