RE: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Stewart, Louis (IS)
: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: EXT :Re: GIT and large files Technically yes, but from a practical standpoint, not really. Facebook recently revealed that they have a 54GB git repo[1], but I doubt it has 20+GB files in it. I've put 18GB of photos into a git repo, but everything about the process

RE: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Jason Pyeron
-Original Message- From: Stewart, Louis (IS) Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 11:38 Can GIT handle versioning of large 20+ GB files in a directory? Are you asking 20 files of a GB each or files 20GB each? A what and why may help with the underlying questions. v/r, Jason Pyeron --

Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Marius Storm-Olsen
On 5/20/2014 10:37 AM, Stewart, Louis (IS) wrote: Can GIT handle versioning of large 20+ GB files in a directory? Maybe you're looking for git-annex? https://git-annex.branchable.com/ -- .marius -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a message to

Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com writes: Can GIT handle versioning of large 20+ GB files in a directory? I think you can git add such files, push/fetch histories that contains such files over the wire, and git checkout such files, but naturally reading, processing and writing 20+GB

RE: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Stewart, Louis (IS)
- From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:18 PM To: Stewart, Louis (IS) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: EXT :Re: GIT and large files Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com writes: Can GIT handle versioning of large 20+ GB files in a directory? I think you

Re: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
, May 20, 2014 1:18 PM To: Stewart, Louis (IS) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: EXT :Re: GIT and large files Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com writes: Can GIT handle versioning of large 20+ GB files in a directory? I think you can git add such files, push/fetch histories

RE: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Stewart, Louis (IS)
20, 2014 2:15 PM To: Stewart, Louis (IS) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: EXT :Re: GIT and large files Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com writes: Thanks for the reply. I just read the intro to GIT and I am concerned about the part that it will copy the whole repository

Re: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Thomas Braun
directory. The history has TBs of data. Lou -Original Message- From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gits...@pobox.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 1:18 PM To: Stewart, Louis (IS) Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: EXT :Re: GIT and large files Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com writes

Re: EXT :Re: GIT and large files

2014-05-20 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, 20 May 2014 18:18:08 + Stewart, Louis (IS) louis.stew...@ngc.com wrote: From you response then there is a method to only obtain the Project, Directory and Files (which could hold 80 GBs of data) and not the rest of the Repository that contained the full overall Projects? Please

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-29 Thread Drew Northup
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Darek == Darek Bridges darek.brid...@me.com writes: Darek I use git for many things, but I

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-23 Thread Kalle Launiala
2012/7/23 Sitaram Chamarty sitar...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Darek == Darek Bridges darek.brid...@me.com writes: Darek I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-22 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Junio C Hamano gits...@pobox.com wrote: mer...@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: Darek == Darek Bridges darek.brid...@me.com writes: Darek I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the Darek workflow to use git for deployment. Don't.

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Elia Pinto
Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And, for a configuration management system as puppet this could be a sensible thing to do -

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if it was the big files part that Randal was responding to. IIUC it was the using git for deployment part. Packaging tools (Makefiles, .rpm, .deb, etc) are a better suited for deploying software. Fair

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Elia Pinto gitter.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the configuration fetched. In this sense git IS used for deployement. And, for a

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Elia Pinto
Sure . There is a complete paragraph creating decentralized puppet architecture in puppet 2.7 cookbook. I am also sure to have read the same topic on web on the site bitfieldconsulting.com , not casually : the book's author have his blog there. Sorry i have not the complete url now - old

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-21 Thread Nick
On 21/07/12 15:42, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Elia Pinto gitter.spi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, many folks use puppet in serverless configuration pushing the manifest from a central git server via cron and applying locally the configuration fetched. In this sense git

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Darek == Darek Bridges darek.brid...@me.com writes: Darek I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the Darek workflow to use git for deployment. Don't. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

Re: git with large files...

2012-07-20 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: Darek == Darek Bridges darek.brid...@me.com writes: Darek I use git for many things, but I am trying to work out the Darek workflow to use git for deployment. Don't. Heh. Best to keep in mind that it just