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Re: How to ignore deleted files

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DTDavid Tweed <david.tweed@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 11, 2008, 15:43 UTC
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Andreas Hildebrandt <anhi@bioinf.uni-sb.de> wrote:

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>  I absolutetly agree that it's strange. The main reason for this is that
>  we have some collections of data files (some of them pretty large) that
>  can be compressed pretty effectively. At compilation time, it is decided
>  if the files are needed or not. If so, they are extracted. In the end,
>  the .tar.gz files are deleted since they are no longer needed. In

This is probably a silly questions: why are you actually deleting the tar.gz files? If they compress the data files well, then any storage requirement for keeping them is dwarfed by the size of the unpacked data files (presumably). If a minor tweak to your build process avoids more complicated git scripting, that sounds a reasonable trade-off.

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  1. Andreas HildebrandtMar 11, 2008
  2. Jakub NarebskiMar 11, 2008
  3. Andreas HildebrandtMar 11, 2008
  4. Santi BéjarMar 11, 2008
  5. Git and pristine-tarSergio Callegari, Mar 11, 2008
  6. David TweedMar 11, 2008

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