Coding: Fleeting Thoughts

[Yakk]

Why would commits take 5 minutes?!

[commodorejohn]

Why would commits take 5 minutes?!

Obviously, because you're in a hurry and would rather they take five seconds. This is the way of things.

[Xenomortis]

I suspect something other than ~500 line text files are being committed...

[Flumble]

Why would commits take 5 minutes?!

Fine, it was closer to 3 minutes each. I thought it was a good idea to archive the xkcraftia backups in a git repository (since it's the default version control these days), thinking "oh, git can handle binary blobs well enough". Alas, it takes significantly longer to perform a commit than to copy the whole directory and the commit is significantly larger than storing a copy.
Note that these were commits for which nearly everything changed. (especially after the update to minecraft 1.13 in which every single piece of the world was repackaged)

Now borg was only twice as fast with committing a backup, but it did manage to de-duplicate a bunch of data so the end result is slightly smaller than separate backups.
Of course today's backup is be 'small' in both borg and git because less than a tenth of the files have changed, but now I've got borg set up so screw (g)it.

[Yakk]

"oh, git can handle binary blobs well enough"

Hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

ahum.