From: Jakub Narebski Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:11:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept Message-ID: <200802111111.54187.jnareb@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Sean napisał: >>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:22:09 -0500 (EST) >>> Nicolas Pitre wrote: >>> >>>> Finding out what those huge objects are, and if they actually need to be >>>> there, would be a good thing to do to reduce any repository size. >> IIRC Dana How tried also to deal with repository with large binary >> files in repo, although in that case those had shallow history. IIRC >> the proposed solution was to pack all such large objects undeltified >> into separate "large-objects" kept pack. > > That was to solve a completely different problem which wasn't about > space saving, but rather to save on 'git push' latency. Sorry, my mistake. Although in Dana case separating large blobs into non-packed loose objects (her patches), or separate kept non-delta large blobs only pack (proposed solution), were shared over networked filesystem. So the amortized size of repository was smaller... ;-ppp -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git