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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Chad Dombrova <chadrik@gmail.com>,
	"Tim 'Mithro' Ansell" <tansell@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: read-only working copies using links
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:02:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0901240302q6b3c9a13p56fe39a976882133@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EE64C92-CB4C-47BD-9C48-E369AED4B82F@gmail.com>

Heya,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:17, Chad Dombrova <chadrik@gmail.com> wrote:
> the crux of the issue is that the blob objects would have to be stored as
> exact copies of the original files.  it would seem there are two things that
> currently prevent this from happening.  1) blobs are stored with compression
> and 2) they include a small header.  compression can be disabled by setting
> core.loosecompression to 0, so that seems like less of an issue.  as for the
> header, wouldn't it be possible to store it separately?  in other words,
> store two files per blob directory, a small stub file with the header info
> and the unaltered file data.

I think Tim Ansell (cced) was talking about this at the gittogether
(storing the metadata seperately), as it would benefit sparse/narrow
checkout, another advantage supporting his case?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-24 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24  9:17 read-only working copies using links Chad Dombrova
2009-01-24 11:02 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2009-01-24 18:39   ` Chad Dombrova
2009-01-24 18:43     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-01-24 19:35       ` Jeff King
2009-01-24 19:34     ` Jeff King

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