linux-kernel - Re: Git as a filesystem

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:30:15 +0200
From:	"Peter Stahlir" <peter.stahlir@...glemail.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	"Muhammad Tayyab" <mail.tayyab@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem

> >For example, imagine running a complete Debian mirror on top of a
> >Debian system with gitfs. How big would the packfile be for this 252GB
> >beast?
>
> Probably 252 GB. Lots of the packages are already compressed, and
> each time a minimal change is done, the bytestream changes, so long
> story short, deltifying between to compressed streams is likely to
> deltify horribly.

What about adding deb or tar support to git?
Then git doesn't store deb archives but the contents of archives.
This way redundancy across architectures can be deltified.
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