Re: Kernel SCM saga..

Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09T23:15:16Z

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, David S. Miller 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.

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

That's the good news.

The bad news is that this is obviously why it does eat a lot of disk.
Since it saves full-file commits, you're going to have a lot of
(compressed) full files around.

Linus