[Etoys] Git problem

[Andreas Raab]

In this case I'd point the shortcoming out to OLPC and ask them to 
consider an alternative (perhaps a partial one for certain projects) to 
Git. Otherwise they may just have to live with the consequences.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> I did, and they said it is not possible. They actually *like* having the 
> whole history, although there was discussion about a partial check-out:
> 
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0601/15659.html
> 
> It's not even a real SCM but something Linus T. wrote for his use. I 
> guess with today's bandwidth and disk space that's even reasonable - for 
> source code.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> Am 15.10.2006 um 19:40 schrieb Andreas Raab:
> 
>> I'd ask someone who knows about Git. I can't imagine that in this day 
>> and age a content management system isn't capable of dealing with 
>> binary files effectively. This reminds me too much of CVS ;-) So 
>> before looking for anything else we should check the git docs - there 
>> should be something that describes how to deal with binary files 
>> effectively.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   - Andreas
>>
>> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> we discovered a serious problem with git, the source code versioning 
>>> system that is used for OLPC work:
>>> I have been using it like I used to with subversion, that is, check 
>>> in an updated etoys.image.gz every day:
>>>     http://dev.laptop.org/git.do?p=projects/etoys
>>> Now Marco, who is on an ISDN connection, tried to check that out, and 
>>> it downloaded like 30 MB. Turns out checking out from a git 
>>> repository does download the *whole* history since the dawn of time. 
>>> Eek.
>>> I hear git does use delta-compression for binary files, but I looks 
>>> like that does not work for an image:
>>> 52      .git
>>> git add OLPCPlugin.image
>>> 5764    .git
>>> git commit
>>> 5776    .git
>>> run image, save, commit
>>> 11492   .git
>>> run image, save, commit
>>> 17208   .git
>>> The increase for each image check-in is about the gzipped size of the 
>>> whole image.
>>> So. We might have to put the images somewhere else. Or only store the 
>>> original image plus changesets in a folder, and have the makefile 
>>> update the image from those changesets.
>>> A similar problem will arise once we store projects in git.
>>> Any ideas?
>>> - Bert -
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