Re: Better big file support & GSoC

Le Sat, 2 Apr 2011 21:00:53 -0700 (PDT),
david@lang.hm a écrit :

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Jonathan Michalon wrote:

quoted

Hi Git people,

I'm an applicant to the GSoC within git.
I would like to help building a better big file support mechanism.

I have read the latest threads on this topic:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/165389/focus=165389
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168403/focus=168852

there was also an offshoot of a similar discussion that pointed out that 
this could be done pretty cleanly with the clean/smudge hooks.

David Lang

Edit:
Hum I just failed to reply correcly... did only to the original poster, not the
whole list. My apologies.

Message:
At least to my mind big file support is more important than just doing some
tricky manipulation with existing hook types. It should highly benefit from
being integrated deeply within git, both because of optimisations or in terms
of integration.
I read the discussion about clean/smudge hooks too but I skipped the idea
because the final thought was "feels like a hack". See here:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/168857

In fact I don't know how this could be considered as "clean" or "hacky"…

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Jonathan Michalon