> >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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
