From: "Øyvind Harboe" <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
To: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c09652430901072333r6a2d849cn5dff8f53e18cd6ba@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0901071555t62c1da3ar2b2cfd14222b502e@mail.gmail.com>
>> Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files efficiently?
>
> No, but you can unpack the tarballs and include the toolchains as submodules
> (aka subprojects) in the projects which need them.
>
> See man page to git submodule, the user-manual.txt on "submodule" and
> gitmodules.txt (submodule configuration formats and conventions).
I'll need the submodule stuff for sure, but in this particular case I was
trying to see if there was a way to keep the svn abuse patterns from
svn under git without a lot of retraining.
--
Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html
ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex
JTAG debugger and flash programmer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-06 12:55 Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn Øyvind Harboe
2009-01-07 23:55 ` Alex Riesen
2009-01-08 7:33 ` Øyvind Harboe [this message]
2009-01-08 10:01 ` Johan Herland
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