Re: GSoC - Some questions on the idea of

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:29:40PM -0500, Neal Kreitzinger wrote:

I'm likely going to have to slam graphics files into the main repo in
the very near future.  It sounds like once git.git is updated for
big-file optimization I can just upgrade to that git version and
repack to get the benefits.

Depending on the size and number of the files, git may handle them just
fine. They don't delta well, which means they will bloat your object db
a bit, but if you are talking about a hundreds of megabytes total, it is
probably not that big a deal.

Any idea when that version of git will come out release number wise
and calendar wise?

No idea. This is still in the discussion and experimenting stage. It may
not even happen.

-Peff