[Gate-users] Huge commits to git

[Simon Rit]

Hi,
I fully agree with you, there must be no binary files in the git
repository. We have developed a mechanism to avoid that six months ago
using midas. I'll check with the developers what actions should be
taken to clean up the mess and avoid this in the future (a hook on the
git rep to forbid the commit of binary files).
Simon

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
> Huge root files appeared in the git repository today.
>
> The repository, gzip-ed, took only 1,6 MB until recently. Now
> individual binary root files exceed 200 MB and the whole checkout is
> more than half a gigabyte. That makes working with the repository
> highly problematic, for all kinds of reasons:
> - your server might start choking
> - github doesn't even allow storing files above 100 MB (and throws
> warnings on files above 50 MB)
> - users on slow networks will have serious problems fetching the sources
>
> I would like to kindly ask if you could review the situation and
> possible remove those files from repository (including removing them
> from history, not just from current version). If there is a need for
> such huge files, maybe you can create another public repository
> storing such files.
>
> Mojca
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