From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:04:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161600030.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
In-Reply-To: <m37ii9nagt.fsf@roke.D-201>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> You can always tag a blob (like junio-gpg-pub tag in git.git repository),
> but it wouldn't be in a working directory. But it would get distributed
> on clone.

Hm, how does it work?

> BTW. if those large binary files doesn't differ much between version, 
> they should get well compressed even if you would store them normally, 
> all revisions.

Unfortunately this is not the case.  These binary blobs are already 
compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing 
new version in full size.


cheers,
Petko