bazaarlabs/gitdocs — Issue #26: History dump
Author: dancinglightning
Created: 2011-12-22 17:38:31+00:00
State: open

Hi, great project, which i'd love to start using as soon as this feature is in.

We use dropbox but have the server space (tens of gb) to move to git, but git produces large repos, very quickly, when used with binary data.
Binary data is unfortunately quite common (word/excel/indesign..) and so for it to be usable and not create 100Gb out of a 5gb data within half a year, history dumping is really important.

This has also been discussed in sparkleshare and dismissd, so here's your chance to shine.

I would really love to help with this and have spent hours at the git docs: Alas, my brain is too small, I can not follow into the depths from which the master linus has created this beast.
Conceptionally it's simple: given a time-limit X, you just fold all commits before into one and possibly run gc, Possibly one can just say the last x versions too, whatever makes it easier. But the exact syntax is for someone else to find out.