From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
Peter Stahlir <peter.stahlir@googlemail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git as a filesystem
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:06:26 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709221304080.28395@racer.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070922020632.GB8327@muzzle>
Hi,
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Eric Wong wrote:
> > >
> > > On a similar note, has anybody experimented with using git to store
> > > maildirs or news spools? I'd imagine the quoted portions of most
> > > message threads could be delta-compressed quite efficiently.
> >
> > I store all my mail in a git repository. Works beautifully. Except
> > that the buffers on my laptop are constantly full :-( So a simple
> > commit takes some waiting.
> >
> > Should be no issue on normal (desktop) machines.
>
> D'oh. I already have maildir performance problems on my laptop.
Umm. Regular operation is not affected, since I (add and) commit only
when I weeded out all those spams and other unwanted mail.
> I wonder how well only having an index and no commits (no versioning),
> and manual packing with pack-objects would work. Packing could be
> optimized to order objects based on the Message-Id, References, and
> In-Reply-To headers, too.
The most efficient way would be to have a mailer backend accessing the
database, and then not have a working directory, methinks (especially with
these amounts of mail I am juggling ATM).
Time forbids working on this, though.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 12:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-21 10:51 Git as a filesystem Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 11:11 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-21 11:41 ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 12:53 ` Karl Hasselström
2007-09-21 13:28 ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:41 ` Michael Poole
2007-09-21 14:38 ` jlh
2007-09-21 17:29 ` Dmitry Potapov
2007-09-21 23:56 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-09-22 3:09 ` Sam Vilain
2007-09-21 13:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 13:35 ` Peter Stahlir
2007-09-21 13:45 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-21 15:46 ` Christian von Kietzell
2007-09-21 23:33 ` Eric Wong
2007-09-21 23:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-22 2:06 ` Eric Wong
2007-09-22 12:06 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2007-09-21 14:22 ` Miklos Vajna
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