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Investigate whether the gitwatch role should change the saves to not be compressed in init.txt #2

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bencawkwell opened this issue Nov 5, 2015 · 0 comments
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Investigate whether the gitwatch role should change the saves to not be compressed in init.txt #2

bencawkwell opened this issue Nov 5, 2015 · 0 comments
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Although by default Dwarf Fortress compresses saves to save disk space, this might actually result in a lot more disk space being consumed if each save is stored in a commit, since git is unable to only store the diff of each file when its compressed into a binary. Git also is really good at doing its own compression of the history.

Further investigation is needed to prove this theory.
bencawkwell added a commit that referenced this issue Feb 1, 2016
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Issue #2 Although not proven yet I suspect commiting the compressed b…
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…inary of the saves

will take up more space over the long term, than commiting the RAW saves, since git does
a very good job of compressing.

I also think it is useful to have a commit on embark, rather than players remebering to
save first thing.
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