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Re: RFD Use git for off-site backups

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TGThomas Glanzmann <thomas@glanzmann.de>
Date
May 13, 2007, 11:18 UTC
Message-ID
<20070513111841.GA24392@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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<Pine.LNX.4.64.0705131251370.6410@racer.site>
Hello,
> I think that this setup (have objects remotely) will kill performance
> pretty quickly. You have to compare to other blobs in order to find
> reasonable deltas...
so true. I thought about that myself just after I sent the eMail.
> There has been talk about pre-commit scripts which put this
> information into a file, and a post-checkout script to resurrect these
> metadata, but I haven't seen functional versions of these scripts yet.

I thought there is a way to add information without loosing compability with current git versions. But maybe I am just mistaken.

        Thomas
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  1. Thomas GlanzmannMay 13, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinMay 13, 2007
  3. Thomas GlanzmannMay 13, 2007
  4. Jan HudecMay 13, 2007
  5. Shawn O. PearceMay 13, 2007

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