Re: git reflex

Joey Hess writes about putting snapshot.debian.org into git, which is something I already mentioned on this blog. It turns out I used the snapshot.debian.org data a few months ago to try the idea again, and while I haven't done the math yet with the data I got in the end, the data during the experiment tells me we shouldn't expect much more than a 50% space reduction.

There are two main reasons for that: a few number of packages actually take a whole lot of the archive space, and a whole lot of packages are simply data that don't benefit from being put in a git repository.

2010-04-15 08:13:13+0900

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3 Responses to “Re: git reflex”

  1. Joey Hess Says:

    To be accurate, I was not talking about checking debs into git, only package sources.

    But that is an amusing idea.

  2. glandium Says:

    There is far less than 6.5TB of sources in snapshot.d.o.

  3. Dumsa Says:

    Interresting. It takes currently around 1GiB of RAM to repack my Linux kernel tree. So how much mem will be eaten up if you have a giant repository?

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