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
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