On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Brown wrote: > An upstream tree I'm mirroring with git-p4 has decided to start checking > in large tarballs (150MB) periodically. It's basically a prebuild version > of some firmware needed to run the rest of the software. > > Git doesn't seem to have any problem with these tarballs (and is using a > lot less space than P4), but I have a feeling we might start running into > problems when things get real big. Does anyone have experience with packs > growing beyong several GB? It should just work. It was tested with artificial data sets but that's about it. Now if those tarballs are actually multiple revisions of the same package, you might consider storing them uncompressed and let Git delta compress them against each other which will produce an even more significant space saving. Nicolas - 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
