>> Does git have some capability to store diffs of compressed files efficiently? > > No, but you can unpack the tarballs and include the toolchains as submodules > (aka subprojects) in the projects which need them. > > See man page to git submodule, the user-manual.txt on "submodule" and > gitmodules.txt (submodule configuration formats and conventions). I'll need the submodule stuff for sure, but in this particular case I was trying to see if there was a way to keep the svn abuse patterns from svn under git without a lot of retraining. -- Øyvind Harboe http://www.zylin.com/zy1000.html ARM7 ARM9 XScale Cortex JTAG debugger and flash programmer -- 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