Re: proposal: delta based git archival

2005-04-22 Thread Jaime Medrano
On 4/22/05, Michel Lespinasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed people on this mailing list start talking about using blob deltas > for compression, and the basic issue that the resulting files are too small > for efficient filesystem storage. I thought about this a little and decided > I shou

Re: proposal: delta based git archival

2005-04-22 Thread Jeffrey E. Hundstad
Michel Lespinasse wrote: Does this sound insane ? Too complicated maybe ? My vote is YES on both counts. Simplicity and flexibility is what makes git a good thing; and imho this works against that quite aggressively. -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

proposal: delta based git archival

2005-04-22 Thread Michel Lespinasse
I noticed people on this mailing list start talking about using blob deltas for compression, and the basic issue that the resulting files are too small for efficient filesystem storage. I thought about this a little and decided I should send out my ideas for discussion. In my proposal, the current