Re: git-pack-objects gitattributes?

Nasser Grainawi venit, vidit, dixit 19.10.2009 20:47:

Nasser Grainawi wrote:

quoted

Hello,

I'm trying to avoid doing delta compression on a number of large binary 
files. I got a suggestion to use $GIT_DIR/info/attributes and a line 
like this:
*.bin -delta

This doesn't seem to show a big improvement (and honestly I can't find 
where in the git-pack-objects source the value of this attribute is used).

Could someone shed some light on this attribute and any other 
improvements I could make for efficiently serving up a repo over 
git-daemon with near-weekly revisions of 100MB+ files?

Thanks,
Nasser

ping? any help? anyone?

Well, describing a reproducable test case would help... as well as
telling us your git version.

builtin-pack-objects.c certainly refers to the delta attribute, see
no_try_delta() and its callers.

Have you checked your attrs with git-check-attr? How do you measure the
improvements you expect?

Michael