Re: [git-users] Getting good compression

2013-06-09 Thread Dale R. Worley
> $ time git repack -d -l -f --depth=250 --window=250 -A --window-memory=1g >From the manual pages and testing its behavior, when "git repack" is executed by "git gc", the default --window-memory value is supplied by the pack.windowMemory configuration value: pack.windowMemory

Re: [git-users] Getting good compression

2013-06-07 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Martin Mųller Skarbiniks Pedersen > > It sounds like you are using the mbox email format where everything is > kept inside a > single file. That is correct. > Have you considered using the Maildir fomat instead ? No, because my mail reader uses mbox format (and it might require various

Re: [git-users] Getting good compression

2013-06-06 Thread Martin Møller Skarbiniks Pedersen
On 6 June 2013 18:06, Dale R. Worley wrote: > I an working on a system to archive files for backup purposes. The > current challenge is a Unix mailbox file which is about 100Mb. By its > nature, new mail is added to the file at the end and most of that is > rapidly deleted. It sounds like you a