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Re: big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Feb 3, 2011, 06:25 UTC
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, david@lang.hm wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > There is also, supposedly stalled, git-bigfiles project.
> 
> why is the clean/smudge approach that came through the list a week or two ago
> not acceptable?
No idea.

I suppose that's because it is not complicated enough to actually be interesting. This is like my suggestion for simply distributing bundles with BitTorrent.

> If nobody else has time to take those e-mails and create a set of clean/smudge
> scripts, I'll do so later this week (unless there is some reason why they
> wouldn't be acceptable)

Please do so. The contrib directory would be a pretty good place to put them.

> I guess the only question is how to tell what files need to be handled this
> way, but can't we have something in .gitattributes about the file size?

Surely. There is even a core.bigFileThreshold config variable already which could be reused right away for this purpose.

Nicolas
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Message 33 of 36 in “Features from GitSurvey 2010”
  1. Dmitry S. KravtsovJan 29, 2011
  2. Jonathan NiederJan 29, 2011
  3. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  4. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  5. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  6. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  7. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 1, 2011
  9. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  10. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  11. Shawn PearceFeb 1, 2011
  12. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  13. Shawn PearceFeb 2, 2011
  14. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2011
  15. david@lang.hmFeb 2, 2011
  16. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  17. Narrow clone (Re: features from GitSurvey 2010)Jonathan Nieder, Feb 3, 2011
  18. Geert BoschFeb 3, 2011
  19. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  20. Jonathan NiederFeb 3, 2011
  21. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  22. Tracking empty directoriesJonathan Nieder, Feb 1, 2011
  23. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 1, 2011
  24. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  25. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  26. Ilari LiusvaaraFeb 1, 2011
  27. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  28. Jakub NarebskiFeb 1, 2011
  29. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyFeb 2, 2011
  30. Kevin P. FlemingFeb 2, 2011
  31. Nicolas PitreFeb 1, 2011
  32. big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010david@lang.hm, Feb 1, 2011
  33. Nicolas PitreFeb 3, 2011
  34. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011
  35. Jonathan NiederFeb 1, 2011
  36. Matthieu MoyFeb 1, 2011

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