Re: [RFC] Packing large repositories

Dana How wrote:

Hi,

I just started experimenting with using git on
a large engineering project which has used p4 so far.
Part of a checkout is about 55GB;
after an initial commit and packing I have a 20GB+ packfile.
Of course this is unusable, since object_entry's in an .idx

Another idea to consider is that if you are storing changes of files
which have a compressed file format, you will almost certainly save a
huge amount by storing the uncompressed version in the git repository -
as then delta compression stands a chance of working.

Sam.