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* [RFC PATCH] git-p4: add option to store files in Git LFS on import
@ 2015-08-28 12:24 larsxschneider
  2015-08-28 12:24 ` larsxschneider
  2015-08-30  8:49 ` Luke Diamand
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: larsxschneider @ 2015-08-28 12:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git, luke, technoweenie; +Cc: Lars Schneider

From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>

I am migrating huge Perforce repositories including history to Git. Some of them contain large files that would blow up the resulting Git repositories. This patch adds an option to store these files in Git LFS [1] on git-p4 clone.

In order to run the unit tests you need to install the Git LFS extension [2].

Known limitations:
The option "use-lfs-if-size-exceeds" looks at the uncompressed file size. Sometimes huge XML files are tiny if compressed. I wonder if there is an easy way to learn about the size of a file in a git pack file. I assume compressing it is the only way to know.

Feedback is highly appreciated.

Thank you,
Lars


[1] https://git-lfs.github.com/
[2] https://github.com/github/git-lfs/releases/

Lars Schneider (1):
  git-p4: add option to store files in Git LFS on import

 Documentation/git-p4.txt |  12 ++
 git-p4.py                |  94 ++++++++++++++--
 t/t9822-git-p4-lfs.sh    | 277 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 374 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t9822-git-p4-lfs.sh

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1.9.5 (Apple Git-50.3)

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2015-08-30  9:08   ` Luke Diamand
2015-08-30  8:49 ` Luke Diamand
2015-08-30 10:18   ` Lars Schneider
2015-08-30 16:36     ` Luke Diamand
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