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Re: Git and Very Large Codebases

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 20, 2010, 09:46 UTC
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Brian Herman <brianherman@gmail.com> writes:
> Can git support codebases on the order of magnitude of Gigabytes?
> For example, a game developer might want to use git as their SCM
> software but their codebases can be in gigabytes in scale.
> If git cannot support this how would one begin to create this support?
Take a look at git-bigfiles project.
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Jakub Narebski
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  1. Brian HermanApr 20, 2010
  2. Andreas EricssonApr 20, 2010
  3. Jakub NarebskiApr 20, 2010

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