Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: add support for large file systems

2015-09-04 Thread Jeff King
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 10:49:36PM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote: > Do you want to test this feature against a real backend? In that case > you would need a LFS enabled GitHub account. If you don’t have one, > maybe _Jeff King_ can help? You can sign up here:

[PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: add support for large file systems

2015-09-03 Thread larsxschneider
From: Lars Schneider Perforce repositories can contain large (binary) files. Migrating these repositories to Git generates very large local clones. External storage systems such as LFS [1] or git-annex [2] try to address this problem. Add a generic mechanism to detect

Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: add support for large file systems

2015-09-03 Thread Luke Diamand
On 03/09/15 17:35, larsxschnei...@gmail.com wrote: From: Lars Schneider Perforce repositories can contain large (binary) files. Migrating these repositories to Git generates very large local clones. External storage systems such as LFS [1] or git-annex [2] try to

Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] git-p4: add support for large file systems

2015-09-03 Thread Lars Schneider
On 03 Sep 2015, at 22:03, Luke Diamand wrote: > On 03/09/15 17:35, larsxschnei...@gmail.com wrote: >> From: Lars Schneider >> >> Perforce repositories can contain large (binary) files. Migrating these >> repositories to Git generates very large