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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
