From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tay Ray Chuan Subject: Re: GIT as binary repository Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:19:51 +0800 Message-ID: References: <2EBB46ACFCD6CF48B45E2B1865BD02338037D36B4E@GVW1098EXB.americas.hpqcorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" To: "Wilson, Kevin Lee (OpenView Engineer)" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 21 16:20:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8w00-00040g-8W for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:20:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758188Ab0JUOTx convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:19:53 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:41458 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756881Ab0JUOTw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:19:52 -0400 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so139371ewy.19 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:19:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=K/gnHtImbw+2J8GosGm51WgenUKaw90ZL9F7Gd+GgVI=; b=AyIfFT5Yjpf5xlrFVfhsz6LXs9s9qt1GWm7i37tZEIe2dqSWS0d9BVmMfFEimy3+25 vZTksymuzb3F1lW7+3F8SoDQ5Kf2ex18L9OX1E1FdNT31xFVVlKy+3JPnM4EevfTLmhr RgnWXR95LzGUFNDXy8ljkfUeHLptMWnfgrVZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=G1XzeeAICZh7BGJ7WGoDzzzhi43tZRi9u/UkhtFMQrJ2aeqFR1Y+MMXUQ36I0Lmh0h kzkSsjbnygg8yUyX/AW5P/GO8NlbM19hNxxIvlJjn1UgyrIYrkp2i5qHBwhdt/D+RDzr VI+t9GnCd6bVctt/W1g1ANcqiD5j5jspJVNgg= Received: by 10.213.26.81 with SMTP id d17mr2850299ebc.42.1287670791302; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:19:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.3.78 with HTTP; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:19:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2EBB46ACFCD6CF48B45E2B1865BD02338037D36B4E@GVW1098EXB.americas.hpqcorp.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Wilson, Kevin Lee (OpenView Engineer) wrote: > We are investigating the use of GIT as a binary repository solution. = Our larger files are near 800MB and the total checked out repo size is = about 3 GB the repo size in SVN is more like 20-30GB, if we could prune= the history prior to MR, we could get these sizes down considerably. T= his binary repo is really for our super project build. =A0From what I h= ave read and learned, this is not a good fit for the GIT tool. Have the= re been performance improvements lately? Some of the posts I have read = have been quite old? check this out: http://github.com/apenwarr/bup It's a modified git system that's purpose-built for large files. That's just about all the sensible information I can share you with you. --=20 Cheers, Ray Chuan