From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petko Manolov Subject: Re: git and binary files Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:04:22 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 16 15:07:30 2008 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 1JF8uC-000414-18 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:06:12 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752482AbYAPOFn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:05:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752619AbYAPOFn (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:05:43 -0500 Received: from n152-u15.cabletel.bg ([89.253.152.15]:38517 "EHLO zztop.nucleusys.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbYAPOFm (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:05:42 -0500 Received: from bender.nucleusys.com ([192.168.234.2]) by zztop.nucleusys.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JF8tY-0007Nd-A7; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:05:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote: > You can always tag a blob (like junio-gpg-pub tag in git.git repository), > but it wouldn't be in a working directory. But it would get distributed > on clone. Hm, how does it work? > BTW. if those large binary files doesn't differ much between version, > they should get well compressed even if you would store them normally, > all revisions. Unfortunately this is not the case. These binary blobs are already compressed and/or encrypted and adding even a few bytes ends up storing new version in full size. cheers, Petko