From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vipul Amler Subject: Re: Centralized git Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:17:37 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Javier Domingo , jaseem abid , git@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jul 31 17:48:06 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 1SwEg1-0005hz-5y for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:48:05 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755275Ab2GaPsA convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:48:00 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:42192 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754184Ab2GaPr6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:47:58 -0400 Received: by vcbfk26 with SMTP id fk26so5951857vcb.19 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=vZCY1V7MLwqOYlSD8K3JqXamFB1v3R22R7XGlM07Ujc=; b=aHXNgowj4S68wtzMbZsMsu6ErCFa41QdziuuUxVucb+2P8bbSIj7xe8Pa3lU/PTufy 0pbo04D7N/zqV3iTpwdx3KydbMZaHJ6w5yONoSQZG+EWJ6ZVcG6wgwodUlXM9CqL8ZEO PxVoal0n5d7NxHT2yrKI9YGHmVBrnFDuvU3+/PpnaCKE4IuP1soFFyN1U5HWW46V0yTT aNhtlFO5eFulEeiP1u+rKHc4fBtymkgkVmncXehyVnyCxUNWGVQs2ZEvQyXyPIUFVT6m 9GMbONBk028uvI4L4K31DE6JgLS+0UhgMgm4lAUT+w+XD3W6qF7w/h9u9DZRSzk5asNT qnKA== Received: by 10.52.98.8 with SMTP id ee8mr12652439vdb.58.1343749677831; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:47:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.58.142 with HTTP; Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:47:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:22 PM, =C6var Arnfj=F6r=F0 Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Javier Domingo = wrote: >> Network, in this case is cheaper. The thing is that If I commit >> frecuently, will have plenty of GBs of history, that nearly for sure= I >> won't use. I just need to have other people's work to merge. But I >> want to think in Git style, I am pretty accustomed to that way of >> doing things. That is why I sent this mail here. >> >> The idea is that if I modify 700MBs of video, with 20 commits I woul= d >> get in 21GB. And making a pull would be... just even more horrible >> than anything. That is why I need to have also last checkouts filter= =2E >> Just download branch's HEADs. > > You're obviously aware of git-annex, is there any reason you can't > just use that? > > That would give you what you want, you'd have a moving window of > current files, and then you'd delete old files as they become > un-needed. If there is a lot of static content, you should try git-media[1]. Its specifically aimed at what you are trying to achieve. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [1] https://github.com/schacon/git-media/