Git exile Issues

Hey Git Experts,

I need your advice. I have lot of png/jpg images in my codebase (which
is currently under git) which causes the repo size to be very heavy.
We have migrated these images to a storage server using git exile
technique. This has been working fine so far (with some glitches) on
unix platform. However to make it work on windows has been a big pain.
I got it work to some extent that I can pull stuff from storage and
replace the references here but its not complete. Also it made the
other commands like git status to be very slow. Does anybody have done
this before? If so can you please share your experience on it?



I tried using Cygwin but my Cygwin installation on windows 7 is not
going fine. Having failure in running the post install rebase script.
I am unable to checkout a package in Cygwin and I suspect it is
because of the post install stuff failure.

Any help/hints will be greatly appreciated.

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Thanks & Regards
Sudhir Kumar

Sudhir Kumar <smalikphy <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hey Git Experts,

I need your advice. I have lot of png/jpg images in my codebase (which
is currently under git) which causes the repo size to be very heavy.
We have migrated these images to a storage server using git exile
technique. This has been working fine so far (with some glitches) on
unix platform. However to make it work on windows has been a big pain.
I got it work to some extent that I can pull stuff from storage and
replace the references here but its not complete. Also it made the
other commands like git status to be very slow. Does anybody have done
this before? If so can you please share your experience on it?

Hmmm... I wonder if alternatives to git-exile, i.e. git-annex and
git-media (perhaps also other tools; the list on Git Wiki is woefully
incomplete and not up to date) would perform better...

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Jakub Narębski