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From: Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Volodymyr Sendetskyi <volodymyrse@devcom.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Binary files
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 19:46:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d2dcfc0-81e0-ff16-3d21-7148978f8100@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqo9sekfjm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On 20/07/2017 22:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes:
>> On 20/07/2017 09:41, Volodymyr Sendetskyi wrote:
>>> It is known, that git handles badly storing binary files in its
>>> repositories at all.
>>> This is especially about large files: even without any changes to
>>> these files, their copies are snapshotted on each commit. So even
>>> repositories with a small amount of code can grove very fast in size
>>> if they contain some great binary files. Alongside this, the SVN is
>>> much better about that, because it make changes to the server version
>>> of file only if some changes were done.
>>
>> You already got some proposals on what you could try for making large 
>> binary files handling easier, but I just wanted to comment on this 
>> part of your message, as it doesn`t seem to be correct.
> 
> All correct.  Thanks.

No problem, thanks for confirmation, being relatively new around it`s 
appreciated, at least knowing that I got it correct myself :)

      reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21 17:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2017-07-20  7:41 ` Binary files Volodymyr Sendetskyi
2017-07-20  7:58   ` Bryan Turner
2017-07-20  8:01   ` Konstantin Khomoutov
2017-07-20  8:32   ` Lars Schneider
2017-07-20 17:22   ` Stefan Beller
2017-07-20 18:49   ` Igor Djordjevic
2017-07-20 20:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-07-21 17:46       ` Igor Djordjevic [this message]

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