Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-10T00:15:07Z

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > I understand the arguments for compression, but I hate it for one
> > simple reason: recovery is more difficult when you corrupt some
> > file in your repository.

I've had this too. Magic binary blobs are horrible here for data loss
which is why I'm not keen on subversion.

> Trust me, the way git does things, you'll have so much redundancy
> that you'll have to really _work_ at losing data.

It's not clear to me that compression should be *required* though.
Shouldn't we be able to turn this off in some cases?

> The bad news is that this is obviously why it does eat a lot of
> disk.

Disk is cheap, but sadly page-cache is not :-(

> Since it saves full-file commits, you're going to have a lot of
> (compressed) full files around.

How many is alot? Are we talking 100k, 1m, 10m?