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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

  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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