On 28 August 2015 at 13:24, <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Lars Schneider <larsxschnei...@gmail.com> > > I am migrating huge Perforce repositories including history to Git. Some of > them contain large files that would blow up the resulting Git repositories. > This patch adds an option to store these files in Git LFS [1] on git-p4 clone.
I'm a bit worried by this. LFS isn't the only way to handle large files in git - there's also git annex (which I've used in a similar situation) and obviously random homebrew solutions. We're going to end up with git-p4 sprouting ever increasing numbers of --use-XXX-if-size-exceeds options. On the other hand, having it integrated into git-p4 is quite nice as it saves a lot of messing around. Would it be possible as a start to have (within git-p4) a generic spot-big-files-and-handle-them-differently patch, and a second patch to add specific LFS support? That then means that other schemes would be a lot easier to add in future. Some other comments inline. > > In order to run the unit tests you need to install the Git LFS extension [2]. > > Known limitations: > The option "use-lfs-if-size-exceeds" looks at the uncompressed file size. > Sometimes huge XML files are tiny if compressed. I wonder if there is an easy > way to learn about the size of a file in a git pack file. I assume > compressing it is the only way to know. > > Feedback is highly appreciated. > > Thank you, > Lars > > > [1] https://git-lfs.github.com/ > [2] https://github.com/github/git-lfs/releases/ > > Lars Schneider (1): > git-p4: add option to store files in Git LFS on import > > Documentation/git-p4.txt | 12 ++ > git-p4.py | 94 ++++++++++++++-- > t/t9822-git-p4-lfs.sh | 277 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 3 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > create mode 100755 t/t9822-git-p4-lfs.sh > > -- > 1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3) Can you switch to a newer git - this one's quite old now so if there are regressions introduced later, you won't know about them! > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
