From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Nasser Grainawi <nasser@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-pack-objects gitattributes?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:15:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADCBAC7.9010601@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADCB457.8050601@codeaurora.org>
Nasser Grainawi venit, vidit, dixit 19.10.2009 20:47:
> Nasser Grainawi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to avoid doing delta compression on a number of large binary
>> files. I got a suggestion to use $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and a line
>> like this:
>> *.bin -delta
>>
>> This doesn't seem to show a big improvement (and honestly I can't find
>> where in the git-pack-objects source the value of this attribute is used).
>>
>> Could someone shed some light on this attribute and any other
>> improvements I could make for efficiently serving up a repo over
>> git-daemon with near-weekly revisions of 100MB+ files?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Nasser
>
> ping? any help? anyone?
Well, describing a reproducable test case would help... as well as
telling us your git version.
builtin-pack-objects.c certainly refers to the delta attribute, see
no_try_delta() and its callers.
Have you checked your attrs with git-check-attr? How do you measure the
improvements you expect?
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-19 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-12 23:00 git-pack-objects gitattributes? Nasser Grainawi
2009-10-19 18:47 ` Nasser Grainawi
2009-10-19 19:15 ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2009-10-20 16:34 ` Nasser Grainawi
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