From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:42:26 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution Message-ID: <20110126174226.GA14511@gnu.kitenet.net> In-Reply-To: Scott Chacon wrote: > Sorry to come in a bit late to this, but in addition to git-annex, I > wrote something called 'git-media' a long time ago that works in a > similar manner to what you both are discussing. Huh, if I had known about that I might not have written git-annex. Although probably I would have still, I needed a more distributed approach to storing data than git-media seems to support, and the ability to partially check out only some files. > >    git config --global filter.huge.clean huge-clean %f > > This is amazing. I absolutely did not know you could do this, and it > would make parts of git-media way better if I re-implemented it using > this. Thanks for pointing this out. Yeah, that's great, it should allow a smart clean filter to not waste time reprocessing a known large file on every git status/git commit. -- see shy jo