From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David Tweed" Subject: Re: How to ignore deleted files Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:43:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: <47D68203.10905@bioinf.uni-sb.de> <47D69CE0.3030505@bioinf.uni-sb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jakub Narebski" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Andreas Hildebrandt" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 11 16:44:59 2008 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 1JZ6ec-0007uG-D0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:44:38 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752716AbYCKPoA (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751998AbYCKPn7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:43:59 -0400 Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.191]:50091 "EHLO ti-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751028AbYCKPn7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:43:59 -0400 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 28so986318tif.23 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=oQGp1lulq5mkWXTBC/kpu3KDBPMU/67au54aORXN0yI=; b=lXBoxzkVnh5SeNlZSGFHby6urGIrZwJn5WdywMK28jsag5K+7yWOf+A1peaguJ9Vm+nFXwSwVgrCzgSIpe/nMncdLVUV+JjYICRKDJpmuoLqbLDh0qyw0BUZpR63jCKoQ/OCh0+25FRinS7ZRhTyNpQ1kx5hlJN/qaOIGZ4EC74= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PmDo8aLj8WbKXgf/0vzpMS+Dsk/AqyuGoTsJU5iAJofDKLOpSN11f55iVEY0RI7kWhRLcEXFSS7ONapBFDlPlS0fbgvZrEVBc4t+2DBfECiK1qp+yi+K0X3lzjFa5OO9Wh3YIM4FPs4sr//9X45u4fIPP4B9e+bYcjaSr2acI9Q= Received: by 10.151.144.4 with SMTP id w4mr3722442ybn.199.1205250228510; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.149.2 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:43:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <47D69CE0.3030505@bioinf.uni-sb.de> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote: > I absolutetly agree that it's strange. The main reason for this is that > we have some collections of data files (some of them pretty large) that > can be compressed pretty effectively. At compilation time, it is decided > if the files are needed or not. If so, they are extracted. In the end, > the .tar.gz files are deleted since they are no longer needed. In This is probably a silly questions: why are you actually deleting the tar.gz files? If they compress the data files well, then any storage requirement for keeping them is dwarfed by the size of the unpacked data files (presumably). If a minor tweak to your build process avoids more complicated git scripting, that sounds a reasonable trade-off. -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ david.tweed@gmail.com Rm 124, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading. "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot