here are some stats: of the last 34160 files modified in the Linux kernel tree in the past 1 year, the file sizes total to 1 GB, and the average file-size per file committed is 31220 bytes. The changes themselves amount to:
22404 files changed, 1996494 insertions(+), 1396644 deletions(-) (the # of files changed is lower because one file can be modified multiple times) the Linux kernel has an average line-length of 36 bytes, so even without analyzing the commits themselves, the actual size of changes is around 70 MB content added, 50 MB content removed. The patches (plus commit comments, and email headers) add up to 250 MB. So the combo-blob representation would have an uncompressed content somewhere between 130MB and 250MB: 200 MB would be a good guess i think. That's 20% of the 1+ GB the full-blob representation would give, and it would be nearly as compressible. Ingo - 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/