= git-bigfiles - Git for big files =

'''git-bigfiles''' is our fork of Git. It has two goals:

 * make life bearable for people using Git on projects hosting very large files (hundreds of megabytes)
 * merge back as many changes as possible into upstream Git

== Features ==

'''git-bigfiles''' already features the following fixes:

 * '''config''': add `core.bigFileThreshold` option to treat files larger than this value as big files
 * '''git-p4''': fix abysmal performance when importing big files (operation is generally 4 times faster, but can be up to 8000 times faster on Win32)
 * '''fast-import''': do not compute deltas on big files and deflate them on-the-fly (operation is now twice as fast and uses 3.7 times less memory)

== Download ==

Clone the git-bigfiles repository:

{{{
git clone git://repo.or.cz/git/git-bigfiles.git
}}}

If you already have a working copy of upstream git, you may save a lot of bandwidth by doing:

{{{
git clone git://repo.or.cz/git/git-bigfiles.git --reference /path/to/git/
}}}

The main Git repository is constantly merged into git-bigfiles. See the [http://repo.or.cz/w/git/git-bigfiles.git git-bigfiles] repository on [http://repo.or.cz/ repo.or.cz].