Git and Media repositories....

[Tim Ansell <mithro@mithis.com>]

Hey guys,

Last week at the gittogether I lead some discussions about how we could
make Git better support large media repositories (which is one area
where Subversion still make sense). It was suggested that I post to this
list to get a discussion going. 

The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags,
commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using
something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow
and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such
as committing and merging.

You can find a copy of the summary presentation at
 http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf

I have started working on adapting git to check a remote http alternate
to provide a proof of concept.

I appreciate any help or suggestions.

Tim 'mithro' Ansell