On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Sean napisał:
>>> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:22:09 -0500 (EST)
>>> Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Finding out what those huge objects are, and if they actually need to be 
>>>> there, would be a good thing to do to reduce any repository size.

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>> IIRC Dana How tried also to deal with repository with large binary
>> files in repo, although in that case those had shallow history. IIRC
>> the proposed solution was to pack all such large objects undeltified
>> into separate "large-objects" kept pack.
> 
> That was to solve a completely different problem which wasn't about 
> space saving, but rather to save on 'git push' latency.

Sorry, my mistake.

Although in Dana case separating large blobs into non-packed loose
objects (her patches), or separate kept non-delta large blobs only
pack (proposed solution), were shared over networked filesystem.
So the amortized size of repository was smaller... ;-ppp

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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