Subject: Re: [RFC] Packing large repositories

From: Sam Vilain <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:39:20 +1200

Dana How wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just started experimenting with using git on
> a large engineering project which has used p4 so far.
> Part of a checkout is about 55GB;
> after an initial commit and packing I have a 20GB+ packfile.
> Of course this is unusable, since object_entry's in an .idx

Another idea to consider is that if you are storing changes of files
which have a compressed file format, you will almost certainly save a
huge amount by storing the uncompressed version in the git repository -
as then delta compression stands a chance of working.

Sam.