Re: About Summer of code idea -- better big-file support
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
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- Mar 19, 2011, 15:13 UTC
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2011/3/19 徐迪 <xudifsd@gmail.com>:
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> 2011/3/19, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>: >> See below link for recent discussions regarding big file support: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165389/focus=168956 >> >> On the store of big files, bup (at github) model might fit in as well >> if large files change a small portion regularly. >> > But, why those features haven't merged into upstream developement? > Sorry for this question, but I'm fresh here.
This is just my guess. For specific apps, you should pull their authors in.
All apps experiment different ways of dealing with big files and work in certain situations. None is generic enough to be merged upstream. Take bup as an example, it aims at big files _only_. A file is treated as a directory of many smaller pieces. In order to get it merged, we need to separate those big files from the rest because it's just too different in handling them.
-- Duy