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. >- >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/ > - 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/