{"id":984,"date":"2010-04-15T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T06:13:13","slug":"re-git-reflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Re: git reflex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joey Hess writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/kitenet.net\/~joey\/blog\/entry\/git_reflex\/\">putting snapshot.debian.org into git<\/a>, which is something I already <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=181\">mentioned<\/a> on <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=182\">this blog<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t done the math yet with the data I got in the end, the data during the experiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}