From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthieu Moy Subject: Re: blobs (once more) Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:06:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: Git Mailing List , Johannes Schindelin To: Pau Garcia i Quiles X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 06 13:06:54 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7QZZ-00065x-Jj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:06:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754965Ab1DFLGi (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:06:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.imag.fr ([129.88.30.5]:33043 "EHLO shiva.imag.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754808Ab1DFLGh (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 07:06:37 -0400 Received: from mail-veri.imag.fr (mail-veri.imag.fr [129.88.43.52]) by shiva.imag.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p36B6LPT026032 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:06:21 +0200 Received: from bauges.imag.fr ([129.88.43.5]) by mail-veri.imag.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q7QZ4-0001GO-6W; Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:06:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Pau Garcia i. Quiles's message of "Wed, 6 Apr 2011 10:09:18 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (shiva.imag.fr [129.88.30.5]); Wed, 06 Apr 2011 13:06:21 +0200 (CEST) X-IMAG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact MI2S MIM for more information X-MailScanner-ID: p36B6LPT026032 X-IMAG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-IMAG-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-IMAG-MailScanner-From: matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1302692784.09773@F9y/181wJCoXYr4HXerxgw Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Pau Garcia i Quiles writes: > I have read about: > - submodules + using different repositories once one "blob repository" > grows too much. This will be probably rejected because it is quite > contrived. > - git-annex (does not get the files in when cloning, pulling, checking > out; you need to do it manually) > - git-media (same as git-annex) > - boar (no, we do not want to use a VCS for binaries in addition to git) > - and a few more > > So far the only good solution seems to be git-bigfiles but it's still > in development. This seems to be the hot topic of the moment in Git ;-). Loot at the mailing-list's archive, like http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170649 https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SoC2011Ideas#Better_big-file_support there may be a GSoC on the topic. I don't think there's a really good solution for you right now (but I didn't really look closely), but the situation is improving. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/