Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > b) git archive become easily huge just because of such changes > > Do frequent commits of .gmo files significantly increase git archive?
I did not make any stats, cherrypicking single commit (likely close to worst-case) gives me uncompressed 45 megs in blobs: $ git diff-tree -r -c -M -C --no-commit-id cf5d9e1 |acut -f 4 | git cat-file --batch-check |acut -f 3|asum 45175575 You get similar size when looking at patch size: $ git show --binary cf5d9e1 > /tmp/patch $ ls -lh /tmp/patch -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 43M Aug 30 16:44 /tmp/patch $ tgz /tmp/patch #quick compress -rw-r--r-- 1 xxx xxx 11M Aug 30 16:46 patch.tgz Pavel
