On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 10:38 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:41:05PM -0400, Reese Johnson wrote: >> Backup into got. :) > > I realize you might be joking, but to anyone taking this seriously, > don't do this! > The most well-known caveat is that this is not a suitable solution for > large files. > But in any case you will eventually hit the limits where it stops > working. > > I ran an experiment once where I comitted all my archived email and > newly arriving > messages into a (private) git repository every 5 minutes, just to see > what would happen. > (Email was simply the most convenient source of plenty of text data > available to me.) > This repo ended up being about 600GB in size at which point I stopped > the experiment. > 8 GB of the objects were already packed, but with thousands of loose > objects created via > regular commits it became impossible to repack the repository due to > memory constraints. > On box with 16GB of RAM I ended up with 592GB of loose objects which > could not be compressed, > neither by git gc nor by gotadmin cleanup.
oof! thanks for relating that before i realised what reese meant or remembered git myself.
