Re: Centralized repository

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 25, 2007, 06:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20070225060400.GB17031@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <EF7846A2-C573-4018-B399-EBBEEE2812A4@mac.com>

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:14:27PM -0500, bob wrote:

> Anyway, for this one repository, I would really like GIT to support  
> the CVS/SVN central repository system.  The rest of the time, I am  
> quite happy with GIT's distributed system even though all of my  
> repositories are really just for me.

For a while I was running git with an 80-gig repository of media files. I found it useful to network mount the central git repo (I used SMB), and clone to the local machine using alternates (i.e., "git clone -s /net/mounted/git /local/git"). It should work as a normal git repo, except that all object accesses will transparently go over the network, which obviously slows things down a bit (but no slower than CVS!).

You should be able to pack at your size of repo (I obviously couldn't, but I was working with a few very large files, so the overhead wasn't too bad).

HTH, -Peff