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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709211552240.30810@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:53:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To: Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@...glemail.com>
cc: Muhammad Tayyab <mail.tayyab@...il.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem
On Sep 21 2007 15:30, Peter Stahlir wrote:
>
>> >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?
Blatant layering violation.
>Then git doesn't store deb archives but the contents of archives.
And waht about metadata (e.g. rpm Vendor: tag)? tar does not store that.
>This way redundancy across architectures can be deltified.
Not at all. Different instruction sets, different codes ==> delta -> 0.
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