Hi, On Sun, 2 Nov 2008, Tim Ansell wrote: > Last week at the gittogether I lead some discussions about how we could > make Git better support large media repositories (which is one area > where Subversion still make sense). It was suggested that I post to this > list to get a discussion going. > > The general idea is that we always clone the complete meta-data (tags, > commits and trees) and then only clone blobs when they are needed (using > something like alternates). This allows us to support shallow, narrow > and sparse checkouts while still being able to perform operations such > as committing and merging. > > You can find a copy of the summary presentation at > http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf > > I have started working on adapting git to check a remote http alternate > to provide a proof of concept. > > I appreciate any help or suggestions. You might find this message (and others from the same time frame and author) pretty interesting: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/48485 Ciao, Dscho -- 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
