From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Any idea why the git repo is so huge
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:52:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbpyco5z.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hk9p1c$es5$1@ger.gmane.org> (Richard Riley's message of "Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:57:00 +0100")
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> I was under the impression that the one thing that git does not
> advertise is space efficiency - it stores total file blobs for each and
> every change. So I think its efficiency is in terms of speed, not in
> terms of disk usage. And to be honest, if you worry about 54M in a
> development scenario then I'd be surprised when you consider how cheap
> disk is these days.
Git does store those as individual files initially, but once you run git
gc it'll compress them and store only the deltas in the pakfiles.
After I run git gc my orgmode .git/ directory is compressed to 44MB.
Not a huge difference, but a difference nonetheless.
- cwebb
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-03 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 9:01 Any idea why the git repo is so huge Leo
2010-02-02 11:09 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-02-02 12:29 ` Ian Barton
2010-02-02 16:12 ` Leo
2010-02-02 17:57 ` Richard Riley
2010-02-03 15:52 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
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