On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 11:38:42 -0500 Göktürk Yüksek <gokt...@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> > "Again you should not compress these patches because git does not > > play well binary files". > > > > I'm not sure this statement still holds true with git. Does it? > > > It should be possible to compress the patches and use gitattributes[1] > to tell git to decompress them before diffing. But doing so is not > needed since git compresses its objects in the first place. Maybe we > can rewrite this as "You should not compress these patches because git > compresses them upon commit transparently." I think that's beside the point. Regular users fetch the tree with rsync, not git, and the limit is primarily there to avoid bloating that transfer. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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