Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Sean napisał:
> > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:22:09 -0500 (EST)
> > Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Finding out what those huge objects are, and if they actually need to be 
> >> there, would be a good thing to do to reduce any repository size.
> > 
> > Okay, i've sent the sha1's of the top 500 to Jan for inspection.  It appears
> > that many of the largest objects are automatically generated i18n files that
> > could be regenerated from source files when needed rather than being checked
> > in themselves; but that's for the OO folks to decide.
> 
> Good practice is to not add generated files to version control.
> But sometimes such files are stored if regenerating them is costly
> (./configure file in some cases, 'man' and 'html' branches in git.git).
> 
> IIRC Dana How tried also to deal with repository with large binary
> files in repo, although in that case those had shallow history. IIRC
> the proposed solution was to pack all such large objects undeltified
> into separate "large-objects" kept pack.