Dana How wrote: > Hi, > > I just started experimenting with using git on > a large engineering project which has used p4 so far. > Part of a checkout is about 55GB; > after an initial commit and packing I have a 20GB+ packfile. > Of course this is unusable, since object_entry's in an .idx Another idea to consider is that if you are storing changes of files which have a compressed file format, you will almost certainly save a huge amount by storing the uncompressed version in the git repository - as then delta compression stands a chance of working. Sam. - 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