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Re: Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn

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ØHØyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
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Jan 8, 2009, 07:33 UTC
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>> Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files efficiently?
>
> No, but you can unpack the tarballs and include the toolchains as submodules
> (aka subprojects) in the projects which need them.
>
> See man page to git submodule, the user-manual.txt on "submodule" and
> gitmodules.txt (submodule configuration formats and conventions).

I'll need the submodule stuff for sure, but in this particular case I was trying to see if there was a way to keep the svn abuse patterns from svn under git without a lot of retraining.

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Øyvind Harboe
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  1. Øyvind HarboeJan 6, 2009
  2. Alex RiesenJan 7, 2009
  3. Øyvind HarboeJan 8, 2009
  4. Johan HerlandJan 8, 2009

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