LackOfGravitas

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by LackOfGravitas 2y ago
Interesting. I'm always skeptical of blog posts companies make about themselves, but I can definitely see how block-level deduplication could be a huge help. I wonder how it scales with the numbers of blocks (e.g. with 10 TB of data)?
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
Fair. I do have an archive folder in the home directory. Also, probably 70% of the space is in a large workspace/ folder that has different programming projects or open source tools in it. There are also a lot of art and graphics fi
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
I think the only size limitations would be the size of the data store -- my 1.2 TB home folder with 1.2 million or so files becomes around 400GB data store on my NAS and around 200MB for the actual repo. I know that git slows down with num
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
Currently, it takes probably 20-30 minutes to run, which does include all the data deduplication. It was a bit more for the first round, but still under an hour. On my home folder, which is about 1.2 TB and I think around 1.4 million fil
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Show HN: I git commit my home directory every night(github.com)
9 points by LackOfGravitas 3y ago|6 comments
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
Is it easy to try this out on an existing repo and then uninstall it and go back to using git LFS if I don't like it? Can this be done without messing up my repo?
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
Makes sense! I'll try it out.
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by LackOfGravitas 3y ago
Interesting idea, and I can see the potential. However, other tools I've seen that try to "simplify" git end up breaking some desirable aspect of the git workflow, making it far less useful to me than just using the git wor