From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:18:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116141836.GA22639@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161606160.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote:
>> How big are your firmware files? How often do they change, and how large
>> are the changes? IOW, have you confirmed that repacking does not produce
>> an acceptable delta, meaning you get versioning for very low space cost?
>
> Changes don't happen too often, but the size of everything binary in the
> tree easily goes to about 100MB. Three commits later it ends up at about
> 300MB...
Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack?
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-16 10:34 git and binary files Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 10:54 ` David Symonds
2008-01-16 13:21 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:58 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 14:21 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:34 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-01-16 14:45 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 18:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 18:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 11:54 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-16 13:39 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 13:53 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:04 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 14:43 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:01 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 15:18 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:58 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-01-16 16:06 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:09 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 16:34 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-01-16 16:41 ` Florian Weimer
2008-01-16 13:54 ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:14 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:18 ` Jeff King [this message]
2008-01-16 14:25 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 14:32 ` Jeff King
2008-01-16 14:39 ` Petko Manolov
2008-01-16 15:05 ` Rogan Dawes
2008-01-18 6:52 ` David Brown
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2010-07-28 14:17 Jan Dittmer
2010-07-28 14:29 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-07-28 20:17 ` Avery Pennarun
2011-04-28 15:11 Git and Binary Files ryanzec
2011-04-28 15:26 ` Peter Jönsson P
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