From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: GSoC - Some questions on the idea of Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:15 -0400 Message-ID: <20120412210315.GC21018@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20120330203430.GB20376@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4F76E430.6020605@gmail.com> <4F772E48.3030708@gmail.com> <20120402210708.GA28926@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4F84DD60.20903@gmail.com> <20120411213522.GA28199@sigill.intra.peff.net> <4F872D24.8010609@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Sergio Callegari , Bo Chen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Neal Kreitzinger X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Apr 12 23:03:23 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SIRAp-00065l-1F for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:03:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762789Ab2DLVDS (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:18 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:60363 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755917Ab2DLVDR (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:17 -0400 Received: (qmail 31117 invoked by uid 107); 12 Apr 2012 21:03:23 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:23 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:03:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F872D24.8010609@gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:29:40PM -0500, Neal Kreitzinger wrote: > I'm likely going to have to slam graphics files into the main repo in > the very near future. It sounds like once git.git is updated for > big-file optimization I can just upgrade to that git version and > repack to get the benefits. Depending on the size and number of the files, git may handle them just fine. They don't delta well, which means they will bloat your object db a bit, but if you are talking about a hundreds of megabytes total, it is probably not that big a deal. > Any idea when that version of git will come out release number wise > and calendar wise? No idea. This is still in the discussion and experimenting stage. It may not even happen. -Peff