Re: git and binary files

From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2008, 14:25 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161622030.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080116141836.GA22639@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote:
>
>>> How big are your firmware files? How often do they change, and how large
>>> are the changes? IOW, have you confirmed that repacking does not produce
>>> an acceptable delta, meaning you get versioning for very low space cost?
>>
>> Changes don't happen too often, but the size of everything binary in the
>> tree easily goes to about 100MB.  Three commits later it ends up at about
>> 300MB...
>
> Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack?

I did "git repack -f -a -d", but it didn't reduce the repository size. Those binaries are already compressed so any change adds up their size once again.

cheers, Petko