Re: Git and Media repositories....

> Last week at the gittogether I lead some discussions about how we could 
> make Git better support large media repositories (which is one area 
> where Subversion still make sense). It was suggested that I post to this 
> list to get a discussion going.
> 
> The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags, 
> commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using 
> something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow 
> and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such 
> as committing and merging.
> 
> You can find a copy of the summary presentation at
>  http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf
> 
> I have started working on adapting git to check a remote http alternate 
> to provide a proof of concept.
> 
> I appreciate any help or suggestions.