On Mar 23, 2012 5:59 AM, "Ben Smith-Mannschott" <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:22, Ashod Nakashian <ashodnakash...@yahoo.com> wrote: >... > > Now, does this justify the cost of a new file-format? That's reasonable to argue. My take is that the proposed file-format is simple enough and the gains (especially on large projects with many branches/tags checked) should justify this overhead. > > It seems to me that these are the same issues that drove the design of > git's repository format, where individual items are first stored > individually gzipped (loose) and then periodically combined into > efficient pack files to save additional space and file system > overhead. > > Why invent a new format, when one exists that could serve?
Please read Ash's document. He already considered and covered the git pack file format. -g
