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From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
To: Sergio Callegari <sergio.callegari@gmail.com>
Cc: Bo Chen <chen@chenirvine.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GSoC - Some questions on the idea of
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:18:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F772E48.3030708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F76E430.6020605@gmail.com>

On 3/31/2012 6:02 AM, Sergio Callegari wrote:
> I wonder if it could make sense to have some pluggable mechanism for
>  file splitting. Something under the lines of filters, so to say.
> Bupsplit can be a rather general mechanism, but large binaries that
> are containers (zip, jar, docx, tgz, pdf - seen as a collection of
> streams) may possibly be more conveniently split by their inherent
> components.
>

gitattributes or gitconfig could configure the big-file handler for 
specified files.  Known/supported filetypes like gif, png, zip, pdf, 
etc., could be auto-configured by git.  Any yet-unknown/yet-unsupported 
filetypes could be configured manually by the user, e.g.
*.zgp=bigcontainer

v/r,
neal

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-31 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-28  4:38 GSoC - Some questions on the idea of "Better big-file support" Bo Chen
2012-03-28  6:19 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-28 11:33   ` GSoC - Some questions on the idea of Sergio
2012-03-30 19:44     ` Bo Chen
2012-03-30 19:51     ` Bo Chen
2012-03-30 20:34       ` Jeff King
2012-03-30 23:08         ` Bo Chen
2012-03-31 11:02           ` Sergio Callegari
2012-03-31 16:18             ` Neal Kreitzinger [this message]
2012-04-02 21:07               ` Jeff King
2012-04-03  9:58                 ` Sergio Callegari
2012-04-11  1:24                 ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-11  6:04                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-11 16:29                     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-11 22:09                       ` Jeff King
2012-04-11 16:35                     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-11 16:44                     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-11 17:20                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-11 18:51                         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-11 19:03                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-04-11 18:23                     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-11 21:35                   ` Jeff King
2012-04-12 19:29                     ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-12 21:03                       ` Jeff King
     [not found]                         ` <4F8A2EBD.1070407@gmail.com>
2012-04-15  2:15                           ` Jeff King
2012-04-15  2:33                             ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-16 14:54                               ` Jeff King
2012-05-10 21:43                             ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-05-10 22:39                               ` Jeff King
2012-04-12 21:08                       ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-13 21:36                       ` Bo Chen
2012-03-31 15:19         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-04-02 21:40           ` Jeff King
2012-04-02 22:19             ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-03 10:07               ` Jeff King
2012-03-31 16:49         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-03-31 20:28         ` Neal Kreitzinger
2012-03-31 21:27           ` Bo Chen
2012-04-01  4:22             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-04-01 23:30               ` Bo Chen
2012-04-02  1:00                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2012-03-30 19:11   ` GSoC - Some questions on the idea of "Better big-file support" Bo Chen
2012-03-30 19:54     ` Jeff King

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