Re: Git as a filesystem

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Sep 21 2007 15:30, 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.
>
>What about adding deb or tar support to git?

Blatant layering violation.

>Then git doesn't store deb archives but the contents of archives.

And waht about metadata (e.g. rpm Vendor: tag)? tar does not store that.

>This way redundancy across architectures can be deltified.

Not at all. Different instruction sets, different codes ==> delta -> 0.
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