Hardy LRM git repository

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:05:49AM +0200, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Tim Gardner wrote:
> > Stefan,
> > 
> > I think its worthwhile to create a git repository for Hardy LRM,
> > especially since you've unrolled the Broadcom tarball. It will also make
> > it easier to manage the netbook-lpia branch. The other LRM binaries are
> > not changing enough that it will trigger the inefficiencies with git
> > that we saw during Hardy development.
> > 
> > rtg
> 
> While probably not changing that much, they are huge (6x~10MB for Nvidia and 
> one 52MB pack for ATI). The question is how gracefully git will handle such 
> amounts. On the other hand I saw that it seems to do some sort of binary diff even.
> It certainly helps our sanity to have a git repo, so our packages are found and 
> can be handled the same. And hopefully my connection up is better now as I 
> remember an upload tried while still in Canada suffered from the huge amount of 
> data and had to be ass-kicked to the DC(s) first.
> Andy, what would you think from the git side and Steve, you think this would 
> help your workflow?

Git is not normally phased by size.  It does its compression based on
binary diffs internally anyhow.  Everything being the same is normally a
good thing and if we are doing branches for lpia then I guess we have
little choice anyhow.

-apw