From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010 Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:25:56 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <20110129231310.GA11088@burratino> <201102011451.17456.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Jakub Narebski , Jonathan Nieder , "Dmitry S. Kravtsov" , git@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 03 07:26:06 2011 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 1Pksdm-0001VB-T2 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:26:03 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752013Ab1BCGZ6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 01:25:58 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:64435 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751424Ab1BCGZ5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 01:25:57 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by VL-MR-MRZ20.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LG1005MH36U9ID0@VL-MR-MRZ20.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:25:43 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, david@lang.hm wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > There is also, supposedly stalled, git-bigfiles project. > > why is the clean/smudge approach that came through the list a week or two ago > not acceptable? No idea. I suppose that's because it is not complicated enough to actually be interesting. This is like my suggestion for simply distributing bundles with BitTorrent. > If nobody else has time to take those e-mails and create a set of clean/smudge > scripts, I'll do so later this week (unless there is some reason why they > wouldn't be acceptable) Please do so. The contrib directory would be a pretty good place to put them. > I guess the only question is how to tell what files need to be handled this > way, but can't we have something in .gitattributes about the file size? Surely. There is even a core.bigFileThreshold config variable already which could be reused right away for this purpose. Nicolas