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Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2011, 14:40 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> That being said, I'm not sure how much this optimization will buy us.
> There are times when being able to mmap() the file directly, or point an
> external program directly at the original blob will be helpful. But we
> will still have to copy, for example on checkout.

Sparse checkout code may help. If those large files are not always needed, they can be marked skip-checkout based on core.bigFileThreshold and won't be checked out until explictly requested. This use may conflict with sparse checkout because it sets skip-checkout bits automatically from $GIT_DIR/info/sparsecheckout though.

-- 
Duy
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  1. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  2. Wesley J. LandakerJan 21, 2011
  3. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJan 21, 2011
  5. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  6. Sverre RabbelierJan 22, 2011
  7. Pete WyckoffJan 23, 2011
  8. Scott ChaconJan 26, 2011
  9. Eric MontelleseJan 26, 2011
  10. Joey HessJan 26, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2011
  12. Alexander MiselerMar 10, 2011
  13. Jeff KingMar 10, 2011
  14. Eric MontelleseMar 13, 2011
  15. Jeff KingMar 13, 2011
  16. Alexander MiselerMar 13, 2011
  17. Jeff KingMar 14, 2011
  18. Eric MontelleseMar 16, 2011
  19. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 16, 2011
  20. Joey HessJan 22, 2011

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