Git and binaries

[Jim Gettys]

Firmware images are 1 megabyte in size (max), and released infrequently.
I think we can afford many of them.
                            - Jim


On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 14:24 +0200, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed it is intended to use git for firmware images:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Firmware_release_procedures
> 
> Much to our dismay we discovered git does not work well with binaries  
> - when you check out from git you get the whole history with it,  
> which is a multiple of the size of the latest version if there are  
> binaries in it:
> 
> http://mailman.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2006-October/000075.html
> 
> With other SCMs I used, you only get the latest version on checkout.  
> AFAIK there is no similar option for git, although it has been  
> discussed:
> 
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0601/15659.html
> 
> This may or may not be a problem for firmware images. Or is there  
> something else that could be done, short of switching to SVN?
> 
> - Bert -
> 
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Jim Gettys
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