From: Tim Webster <tdwebste@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:45:29 GMT
Subject: Re: performance issue: git clone compression
Message-ID: <72877ab10911071845q1c60e2b0kfe6f0509b5728912@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0911072115270.16711@xanadu.home>

On servers with limit memory it is not piratical to run git gc.
I can run git gc on a bare mirror and rsync back to the server.

I would prefer to for go compress packing entirely for the large git
repositories containing media files.

Can I disable compression by file attribute via .gitattributes?

I am trying to use git for all repositories to avoid a mix of version
control methods.
For media repositories I am using

[core]
    repositoryformatversion = 0
    filemode = false
    bare = false
    logallrefupdates = true
    compression = 0
    loosecompression = 0

[pack]
    # disable delta-based packing
    depth = 1
    # disable compression
    compression = 0

There is no problem with git pull and push
Just git clone swaps the server to death



> Make sure the remote repository is fully packed.  To do so, just go into
> the remote repository and run 'git gc'.
>
>
> Nicolas
>