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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:40:51 +0700
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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> That being said, I'm not sure how much this optimization will buy us.
> There are times when being able to mmap() the file directly, or point an
> external program directly at the original blob will be helpful. But we
> will still have to copy, for example on checkout.

Sparse checkout code may help. If those large files are not always
needed, they can be marked skip-checkout based on
core.bigFileThreshold and won't be checked out until explictly
requested. This use may conflict with sparse checkout because it sets
skip-checkout bits automatically from $GIT_DIR/info/sparsecheckout
though.
-- 
Duy