Announcing Git Large File Storage

Re:Announcing Git Large File Storage by clacke2 on Thursday April 09, 2015 @09:21AM (#9347279)

Ok, that means I don't have to check out git-lfs, git-fat or git-bigstore. My annex is 250k symlinks pointing to 250 GiB of data. It's slow enough as it is.

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Re:Announcing Git Large File Storage by joeyh on Thursday April 09, 2015 @04:34PM (#9350836)

At 250k files in one branch, you are starting to run into other scalability limits in git too, like the innefficient method it uses to update .git/index (rewriting the whole thing).

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Re:Announcing Git Large File Storage by bicolao on Thursday April 09, 2015 @07:08PM (#9351621)

There is the new "split-index" mode to avoid this (see "git update-index" man page). The base index will contains 250k files but .git/index only contains entries you update, should be a lot fewer than 250k files.

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Re:Announcing Git Large File Storage by weakish on Thursday April 23, 2015 @08:59AM (#9426342)

It seems that `--split-index` is only available at 'update-index'. Can it be used with `add` or via `git config`?

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