On 5 April 2011 21:13, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It seems to me that if "git init" creates a $GIT_DIR/info/attributes >> file by default with a line like "*.gz -delta", then that will disable >> the memory intensive deltra compression plumbing for those special >> cases where people need to track gzip archives (similarly another line >> "*.bz2 -delta" for bzip2 archives and so on). Since these files can't >> supposedly be compressed much more, I think Git ought to have a >> default heuristic to not attempt any compression on them. > > I was thinking of very similar thing on my ride home. But I selected > files on size, not extension. With the (hopefully coming soon) > introduction of pathspec magic specifier [1], we can teach git-attr to > express "files that have size in a range [a,b]" (either a or b can be > infinite). The rest is like yours: applying -delta on selected files > then put such a rule with a default range in default template. > > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/169813/focus=169844 Yeah, makes sense. I also noticed the following thread regarding big file support. Most of the details there are related to this issue as well. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/170649/focus=170649 Alif -- 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