From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind_Harboe?=" Subject: Re: Problems with large compressed binaries when converting from svn Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <81b0412b0901071555t62c1da3ar2b2cfd14222b502e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Alex Riesen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 08 08:34:43 2009 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 1LKpPd-0006Pg-Ih for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:34:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753199AbZAHHdR convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:33:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753191AbZAHHdR (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:33:17 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:41174 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753055AbZAHHdP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:33:15 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so26842127bwz.13 for ; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:33:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=LzbNa41mIdK9oXRhh+Xh745qlt5qVAp9CB2xADvk1CY=; b=dTgtAbc8shC1kwnLGwgdvxYfQF7iH/STk+8F/ysglKDCEcGbCdG9plvGbDq25Ezefx VW8s49phmEtrHOX5upq0Ysvr2UuXwCcjpsNnTS2fKWvUnebmQv52SgPiBgY9wnY40gtw Jf+NZeEALZGj7E/k058KT11OGCOGhdclu4+3Q= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=Qi0iuAqz8It4aDBatG9+LYcDb5LfVW8Z7qkWJa/wJy1SAn5KgtFv3SY119JBnGKOdI ZZINJHo4hpuU/d4OXsbDj7vQMIjDC8N6NidWq8DPio4YStKT/A4BbFgkFEKqpyxYSn3q z3saA0dToU0hlqUfNXknrHbqsbkBZqagrCvNM= Received: by 10.223.106.71 with SMTP id w7mr17259867fao.22.1231399993545; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:33:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.121.142 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:33:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0901071555t62c1da3ar2b2cfd14222b502e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 69746230d4261e81 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: >> Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files eff= iciently? > > No, but you can unpack the tarballs and include the toolchains as sub= modules > (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 w= as trying to see if there was a way to keep the svn abuse patterns from svn under git without a lot of retraining. --=20 =D8yvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer