From: david@lang.hm Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 22:11:03 GMT Subject: Re: Why Git is so fast (was: Re: Eric Sink's blog - notes on git, dscms and a "whole product" approach) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, 1 May 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I bet we could probably improve git large-file behavior for many common > cases. Do we have a good test-case of some particular suckiness that is > actually relevant enough that people might decide to look at it (and by > "people", I do mean myself too - but I'd need to be somewhat motivated by > it. A usage case that we suck at and that is available and relevant). I think that a sane use case that would make sense to people is based on the 'game developer' example they have source code, but they also have large images (and sometimes movie clips), where a particular release of the game needs a particular set of the images. during development you may change images frequently (although most changesets probably only change a few, if any of the images) the images can be large (movies can be very large), and since they are already compressed they don't diff or compress well. David Lang