Re: git clone: very long "resolving deltas" phase

From: Vitaly Berov <vitaly.berov@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 10, 2010, 08:05 UTC
Message-ID: <hppbhu$bc7$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqr5mp6o1q.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

On 04/09/2010 12:13 PM, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Vitaly Berov<vitaly.berov@gmail.com>  writes:
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>> Objects amount: 3997548.
>> Size of the repository: ~57Gb.
> [...]
>> By the way, we have a large amount of binary files in our rep.
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> This is clearly not the kind of repositories Git is good at.

Hmm.. I'm looking for a good repository because I'm tired of subversion, Perforce isn't an option to (very expensive and even more uncomfortable). It seems like there only Git/Mercurial are good options. Can you recommend some other scms?

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> I encourage you to continue this discussion, and try to find a way to
> get it working, but the standard approach (probably a "my 2 cents"
> kind of advices, but ...) would be:
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> * Split your repo into smaller ones (submodules ...)
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> * Avoid versionning binary files

I can't get rid of binary files because they are the "sources" of our artists work (the develop a game). Splitting a repo can be an option, but it's very inconvenient for us.

Vitaly