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From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:25:28 +0200 (EET)
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 04:14:30PM +0200, Petko Manolov wrote:
>
>>> How big are your firmware files? How often do they change, and how large
>>> are the changes? IOW, have you confirmed that repacking does not produce
>>> an acceptable delta, meaning you get versioning for very low space cost?
>>
>> Changes don't happen too often, but the size of everything binary in the
>> tree easily goes to about 100MB.  Three commits later it ends up at about
>> 300MB...
>
> Right, as loose objects. Did you try running "git-gc" to repack?

I did "git repack -f -a -d", but it didn't reduce the repository size. 
Those binaries are already compressed so any change adds up their size 
once again.


cheers,
Petko