Git and Media repositories....

Hey guys,

Last week at the gittogether I lead some discussions about how we could make Git better support large media repositories (which is one area where Subversion still make sense). It was suggested that I post to this list to get a discussion going.

The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags, commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such as committing and merging.

You can find a copy of the summary presentation at
 http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf

I have started working on adapting git to check a remote http alternate to provide a proof of concept.

I appreciate any help or suggestions.

Tim 'mithro' Ansell