Hamano: GitTogether 2011

Git maintainer Junio C. Hamano reports on GitTogether 2011 on the Google Open Source blog. A two-day "unconference" event was held at Google's Mountain View headquarters to discuss various Git features, including: "Support for large blobs that would not fit in the memory has been always lacking in Git. There recently has been a lot of work in the native support (e.g. storing them straight to the object store without having to read and hold the whole thing in core, checking out from the object store to the working tree without having to hold the whole thing in core, etc.). There are a few third-party tools and approaches with their own pros-and-cons, but it was generally agreed that adding a split-object encoding like Avery Pennarun's "bup" tools uses would be the right way to help support object transfer between repositories to advance the native support of large objects in Git further."

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