Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261404AbVDIXPQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:15:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261422AbVDIXOs (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:14:48 -0400 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:16870 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261404AbVDIXMF (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Apr 2005 19:12:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 16:13:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "David S. Miller" cc: andrea@suse.de, mbp@sourcefrog.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dlang@digitalinsight.com Subject: Re: Kernel SCM saga.. In-Reply-To: <20050409155511.7432d5c7.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20050407014727.GA17970@havoc.gtf.org> <1112852302.29544.75.camel@hope> <1112939769.29544.161.camel@hope> <20050408083839.GC3957@opteron.random> <20050409022701.GA14085@opteron.random> <20050409155511.7432d5c7.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 772 Lines: 23 On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, David S. Miller 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. Trust me, the way git does things, you'll have so much redundancy that you'll have to really _work_ at losing data. That's the good news. The bad news is that this is obviously why it does eat a lot of disk. Since it saves full-file commits, you're going to have a lot of (compressed) full files around. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/