From: Nasser Grainawi <nasser@codeaurora.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:47:51 GMT
Subject: Re: git-pack-objects gitattributes?
Message-ID: <4ADCB457.8050601@codeaurora.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AD3B4F8.6030007@codeaurora.org>

Nasser Grainawi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to avoid doing delta compression on a number of large binary 
> files. I got a suggestion to use $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and a line 
> like this:
> *.bin -delta
> 
> This doesn't seem to show a big improvement (and honestly I can't find 
> where in the git-pack-objects source the value of this attribute is used).
> 
> Could someone shed some light on this attribute and any other 
> improvements I could make for efficiently serving up a repo over 
> git-daemon with near-weekly revisions of 100MB+ files?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nasser

ping? any help? anyone?