Nasser Grainawi venit, vidit, dixit 19.10.2009 20:47: > Nasser Grainawi wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm trying to avoid doing delta compression on a number of large binary >> files. I got a suggestion to use $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and a line >> like this: >> *.bin -delta >> >> This doesn't seem to show a big improvement (and honestly I can't find >> where in the git-pack-objects source the value of this attribute is used). >> >> Could someone shed some light on this attribute and any other >> improvements I could make for efficiently serving up a repo over >> git-daemon with near-weekly revisions of 100MB+ files? >> >> Thanks, >> Nasser > > ping? any help? anyone? Well, describing a reproducable test case would help... as well as telling us your git version. builtin-pack-objects.c certainly refers to the delta attribute, see no_try_delta() and its callers. Have you checked your attrs with git-check-attr? How do you measure the improvements you expect? Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html