Re: [Linphone-developers] linphone-android: huge binary commit into git repository

[Andrey Gursky]

Hi,

On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 01:58:59 +0100
Andrey Gursky <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 04:05:01 +0100
> Andrey Gursky <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 03:53:55 +0100
> > Andrey Gursky <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear Linphone developers,
> > > 
> > > after updating my local linphone-android git repo I thought git had a
> > > problem, because the repository's metadata (.git) became twice as big
> > > as before (3. March). Looking further I noticed, that git was OK, but a
> > > huge binary (uncompressed audio res/raw/dont_wait_too_long.wav) has been
> > > commited into the repo. The size of 6+ years of accumulated source
> > > history has been doubled by only 1 commit. It seems not very rational.
> > 
> > du -sh .git
> > 34M --> 63M
> > 
> > > Now imagine you'd have to adjust loudness of this audio. This will again
> > > make the repo metadata to grow by ~30 MB and so on. Could you
> > > reconsider this decision? Maybe you could quickly rewrite the history
> > > in order to get rid of only this particular commit? I know it's not
> > > recommended for public repos, but since not much time has been passed
> > > and I believe not many users have already synced their repos, it will
> > > not hurt so much.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Andrey
> 
> I've noticed, a compressed version of the file has been commited. But
> the mentioned issue still remains and uncommented.

I've noticed, the file is really gone in master. But :) You've left it
in the tag 3.0.0, thus still no difference.

du -sh .git
63M

Regards,
Andrey