Re: Multiblobs

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Apr 29, 2010, 06:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20100429065541.GB3268@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100428T164432-954@post.gmane.org>

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:12:07PM +0000, Sergio Callegari wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> it happened to me to read an older post by Jeff King about "multiblobs"
> (http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/4/6/1360014) and I was wandering
> whether the idea has been abandoned for some reason or just put on hold.
> 
> Apparently, this would marvellously help on
> - storing large binary blobs (the split could happen with a rolling checksum
> approach)
> - storing "structured files", such as the many zip-based file formats
> (Opendocument, Docx, Jar files, zip files themselves), tars (including
> compressed tars), pdfs, etc, whose number is rising day after day...
> - storing binary files with textual tags, where the tags could go on a separate
> blob, greatly simplifying their readout without any need for caching them on a
> note tree.
> - etc...

This sounds very much like what I've had in mind for a while, but I always thought that git as a VCS doesn't need that, and that it could be a feature of a new program, for which the git object database would be a special case. That is, a program using the git object database format for individual objects and packs, but with additional object types.

Mike