Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 5, 2010 16:49 UTC (Mon) by SEMW (guest, #52697)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by RCL
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

For what it's worth, both git-bigfiles (a fork of git) and a Mercurial Bigfiles extension exist. (Whether either of them are any use I have no idea).

Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 5, 2010 17:33 UTC (Mon) by chad.netzer (subscriber, #4257) [Link]

Also recently discussed is "bup", which is a backup system for large files:
http://lwn.net/Articles/380983/
http://github.com/apenwarr/bup#readme

The main clever bit is that "bup" writes packfiles directly, rather than trying to diff-and-pack the large blobs after the fact. This combined with splitting and reconstituting large files automatically, might be a good method for git to natively grow efficient large file support (with built in binary data "deduping").