From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:13:44 GMT Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Alif Wahid wrote: > 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 -- Duy