From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kai Blin Subject: Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ? Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 16:36:51 +0100 Message-ID: <200811091636.55343.kai@samba.org> References: <200811080254.53202.jnareb@gmail.com> <200811081631.06229.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1415412.RkbMGv8TVr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David Symonds" , git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Nov 09 17:03:31 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KzCl8-0003sk-HX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:03:31 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755287AbYKIQCK (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:02:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755282AbYKIQCJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:02:09 -0500 Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:43490 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755194AbYKIQCI (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 11:02:08 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1509 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:02:08 EST Received: from ip6-localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lists.samba.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 398D2163A72; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:36:46 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 In-Reply-To: <200811081631.06229.jnareb@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --nextPart1415412.RkbMGv8TVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 08 November 2008 16:31:04 Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > * Tim: Git as a Media Repository > > > http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf > > > > This has kicked off some mailing list discussion; I think this can be > > a major weak point for git, since checking out only a subtree (and > > only the latest revision) is the common SVN way, which copes with > > media repositories and the like just fine. > > Well, you can workaround this weakness by (ab)using submodules... > ...and one should always remember that casual partial checkouts > interfere a bit with whole-tree commits. Interesting. How would you use submodules to work around the fact that bina= ry=20 file changes diff very bad and produce huge histories with basically no val= ue=20 for the user of the working copy? Can you do this from a GUI, easily? We're= =20 talking about media repositories here, so our users are artists. Cheers, Kai =2D-=20 Kai Blin WorldForge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ =2D- Will code for cotton. --nextPart1415412.RkbMGv8TVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJFwOXEKXX/bF2FpQRAnwYAJ9G+F9n2SAxSSQO8VONV+oQcpZuawCfZSiI ajjhonG/kJeyowlo22zvixs= =NfhN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1415412.RkbMGv8TVr--