Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 5, 2010 17:25 UTC (Mon) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: Support large repositories! by marcH
Parent article: A proposed Subversion vision and roadmap

the ability is there in git to have the delta algorithm uncompress revisions before comparing them.

This has been discussed several times (especially in the context of handling things like .odf files that are compressed XML). What needs to be done to handle formats like this is well understood. Git even has the mechanism to flag files as being of a specific type and call arbatrary tools (external scripts/programs) to handle different file types.

unfortunately, nobody has good, simple examples of this that I am aware of. It's possible, but will take some git-fu to get setup.

Support large repositories!

Posted Apr 6, 2010 17:00 UTC (Tue) by Spudd86 (subscriber, #51683) [Link]

What would be nice is if someone wrote the code to handle the common files of this type and just included it as part of git (or at least posted it somewhere)