Re: How to prevent Git from compressing certain files?
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 22, 2009, 20:46 UTC
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Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:
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> I'm (ab)using Git to store my media files, i.e. digicam pictures (*.jpg) > and the like. This way I can e.g. comment a series of pictures without > installing and learning a special purpose "Photo Archiving" tool. Gitk > shows the roadmap! > > Somewhere I read that Git isn't supposed to efficiently handle binary > files. Of course, I don't want to merge my files, just store them with > their history and git-push them to some "safe place". > > I figured that pushing and git gc'ing both try to compress those files > (or differences) really hard. Works great for "regular" files, but is > pointless with jpegs. > > Question: Is there a way to prevent Git from trying to compress certain > files based on their extension?
There is _undocumented_ "delta" gitattribute, introduced by Junio C Hamano in a74db82 (Teach "delta" attribute to pack-objects., 2007-05-19), which you would have to unset.
Like this:
== .gitattributes == *.jpg -delta
-- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git