Re: big files in git was: Re: Features from GitSurvey 2010

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On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> 
> > There is also, supposedly stalled, git-bigfiles project.
> 
> why is the clean/smudge approach that came through the list a week or two ago
> not acceptable?

No idea.

I suppose that's because it is not complicated enough to actually be 
interesting.  This is like my suggestion for simply distributing bundles 
with BitTorrent.

> If nobody else has time to take those e-mails and create a set of clean/smudge
> scripts, I'll do so later this week (unless there is some reason why they
> wouldn't be acceptable)

Please do so.  The contrib directory would be a pretty good place to put 
them.

> I guess the only question is how to tell what files need to be handled this
> way, but can't we have something in .gitattributes about the file size?

Surely.  There is even a core.bigFileThreshold config variable already 
which could be reused right away for this purpose.


Nicolas
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