Re: Git as a filesystem

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 21 2007 13:46, 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.
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