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Re: Organizing (large) test data in git

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Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Feb 27, 2007, 20:18 UTC
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On Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 21:14:07 (+0100) Johannes Schindelin writes:
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>> 
>> Welll... it's not really a matter of capacity, though I do agree that
>> lifting that limit will help.  We are more concerned with time to
>> clone the repos over the (often very slow) corporate network, for
>> example.  With future ratios of about 1% code to 99% test data, we
>> hither and yon with little care, and a monster data repo that is
>> (somehow) sanely managed with git as well.  I was just curious if
>> others had run into the management problems that I mentioned with
>> separating test data from code and what they may have done to surmount
>> them.
>
>Okay I misunderstood, then.
>
>Do shallow clones help you?

Hmm, can't answer now, since I don't know what these are. I shall investigate and see if they do.

Bill
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