From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:28:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git fast-export: add --no-data option
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907251628220.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7f9d599f0907250645s6e6f9b81w3cf20f07eff088eb@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Irving wrote:

> When using git fast-export and git fast-import to rewrite the history
> of a repository with large binary files, almost all of the time is
> spent dealing with blobs.  This is extremely inefficient if all we want
> to do is rewrite the commits and tree structure.  --no-data skips the
> output of blobs and writes SHA-1s instead of marks, which provides a
> massive speedup.

ACK.  I was looking for such an option recently, and was disappointed that 
it was not there yet.

Ciao,
Dscho