From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Dana How <danahow@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Packing large repositories
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:39:20 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46105EC8.90407@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56b7f5510703280005o7998d65pcbcd4636b46d8d23@mail.gmail.com>
Dana How wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started experimenting with using git on
> a large engineering project which has used p4 so far.
> Part of a checkout is about 55GB;
> after an initial commit and packing I have a 20GB+ packfile.
> Of course this is unusable, since object_entry's in an .idx
Another idea to consider is that if you are storing changes of files
which have a compressed file format, you will almost certainly save a
huge amount by storing the uncompressed version in the git repository -
as then delta compression stands a chance of working.
Sam.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-28 7:05 [RFC] Packing large repositories Dana How
2007-03-28 16:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-30 6:23 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-30 13:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-31 11:04 ` Geert Bosch
2007-03-31 18:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-31 19:02 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-31 20:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-31 21:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-31 21:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-02 6:22 ` Geert Bosch
2007-04-03 5:39 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-31 18:51 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-04-02 21:19 ` Dana How
2007-04-02 1:39 ` Sam Vilain [this message]
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