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Re: Git exhausts memory.

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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 5, 2011, 11:13 UTC
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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com> wrote:
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> It seems to me that if "git init" creates a $GIT_DIR/info/attributes
> file by default with a line like "*.gz -delta", then that will disable
> the memory intensive deltra compression plumbing for those special
> cases where people need to track gzip archives (similarly another line
> "*.bz2 -delta" for bzip2 archives and so on). Since these files can't
> supposedly be compressed much more, I think Git ought to have a
> default heuristic to not attempt any compression on them.

I was thinking of very similar thing on my ride home. But I selected files on size, not extension. With the (hopefully coming soon) introduction of pathspec magic specifier [1], we can teach git-attr to express "files that have size in a range [a,b]" (either a or b can be infinite). The rest is like yours: applying -delta on selected files then put such a rule with a default range in default template.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169813/focus=169844
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Duy
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  1. Alif WahidApr 2, 2011
  2. Nicolas PitreApr 2, 2011
  3. Alif WahidApr 3, 2011
  4. Nicolas PitreApr 3, 2011
  5. Alif WahidApr 4, 2011
  6. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 4, 2011
  7. David FriesApr 5, 2011
  8. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  9. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyApr 5, 2011
  10. Alif WahidApr 5, 2011
  11. Holger HellmuthApr 5, 2011
  12. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  13. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreApr 5, 2011
  15. Junio C HamanoApr 5, 2011
  16. Shawn PearceApr 5, 2011
  17. Nicolas PitreApr 6, 2011
  18. Jay SoffianApr 6, 2011
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