Re: Removing old data without disturbing tree?

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, David Brown wrote:

An upstream tree I'm mirroring with git-p4 has decided to start checking
in large tarballs (150MB) periodically.  It's basically a prebuild version
of some firmware needed to run the rest of the software.

Git doesn't seem to have any problem with these tarballs (and is using a
lot less space than P4), but I have a feeling we might start running into
problems when things get real big.  Does anyone have experience with packs
growing beyong several GB?

It should just work.  It was tested with artificial data sets but that's 
about it.

Now if those tarballs are actually multiple revisions of the same 
package, you might consider storing them uncompressed and let Git delta 
compress them against each other which will produce an even more 
significant space saving.


Nicolas