From: Øyvind Harboe Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:33:13 GMT Subject: Re: Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0901071555t62c1da3ar2b2cfd14222b502e@mail.gmail.com> >> 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. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer