Re: git and binary files
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote:
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>> How big are your firmware files? How often do they change, and how large
>> are the changes? IOW, have you confirmed that repacking does not produce
>> an acceptable delta, meaning you get versioning for very low space cost?
>
> Changes don't happen too often, but the size of everything binary in the
> tree easily goes to about 100MB. Three commits later it ends up at about
> 300MB...
Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack?
-Peff
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>