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From: 徐迪 <xudifsd@gmail.com>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git 邮件列表" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: About Summer of code idea -- better big-file support
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:33:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimTWLqkaFkiruqZ8FU8y3YX9C4ujPOPTTJzdRtk@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimH9pgO7JxN3vOcN=Kb3QGpbM7OO4bMpL2eAs=3@mail.gmail.com>

2011/3/19 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> 2011/3/19 徐迪 <xudifsd@gmail.com>:
>> 2011/3/19, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>:
>>> See below link for recent discussions regarding big file support:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165389/focus=168956
>>>
>>> On the store of big files, bup (at github) model might fit in as well
>>> if large files change a small portion regularly.
>>>
>> But, why those features haven't merged into upstream developement?
>> Sorry for this question, but I'm fresh here.
>
> This is just my guess. For specific apps, you should pull their authors in.
>
> All apps experiment different ways of dealing with big files and work
> in certain situations. None is generic enough to be merged upstream.
> Take bup as an example, it aims at big files _only_. A file is treated
> as a directory of many smaller pieces. In order to get it merged, we
> need to separate those big files from the rest because it's just too
> different in handling them.
> --
> Duy
>

Thanks for that timely link, I think I should do some more research now :P

      reply	other threads:[~2011-03-20 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-19 13:15 About Summer of code idea -- better big-file support 徐迪
2011-03-19 13:48 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-19 14:28   ` 徐迪
2011-03-19 15:13     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-20 12:33       ` 徐迪 [this message]

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