From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:19:51 GMT Subject: Re: GIT as binary repository Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <2EBB46ACFCD6CF48B45E2B1865BD02338037D36B4E@GVW1098EXB.americas.hpqcorp.net> Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Wilson, Kevin Lee (OpenView Engineer) wrote: > We are investigating the use of GIT as a binary repository solution. Our larger files are near 800MB and the total checked out repo size is about 3 GB the repo size in SVN is more like 20-30GB, if we could prune the history prior to MR, we could get these sizes down considerably. This binary repo is really for our super project build.  From what I have read and learned, this is not a good fit for the GIT tool. Have there been performance improvements lately? Some of the posts I have read have been quite old? check this out: http://github.com/apenwarr/bup It's a modified git system that's purpose-built for large files. That's just about all the sensible information I can share you with you. -- Cheers, Ray Chuan