On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 04:13:51PM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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.
I've had this too. Magic binary blobs are horrible here for data loss
which is why I'm not keen on subversion.
> Trust me, the way git does things, you'll have so much redundancy
> that you'll have to really _work_ at losing data.
It's not clear to me that compression should be *required* though.
Shouldn't we be able to turn this off in some cases?
> The bad news is that this is obviously why it does eat a lot of
> disk.
Disk is cheap, but sadly page-cache is not :-(
> Since it saves full-file commits, you're going to have a lot of
> (compressed) full files around.
How many is alot? Are we talking 100k, 1m, 10m?
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