From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:40:51 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20110314193254.GA21581@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jeff King 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