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[Florian Rathgeber <florian.rathgeber@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On 21/03/13 22:08, Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:06:14PM +0100, Martin Sandve Alnæs
> wrote:
> 
>> If you download a tarball for a release, then you will get 
>> everything bundled. It is only if you do 'git clone' and then
>> revert to an earlier version that you run into trouble. I'm not
>> planning to unpack all the old tarballs and remove stuff from
>> them... :-) Make that "when reverting to an earlier dolfin
>> version" then, same issue as the checked in code when debugging
>> and looking for the version that fails to run a demo.
> 
> By this argument, there isn't much we can remove.

How about using git-fat to handle large files that we don't want in
the repository, but still be able to pull in on demand? Jed has a
recipe for filtering an existing repository and taking a list of files
to be handled by git-fat:
https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat/blob/master/test-retroactive.sh

Florian

> -- Anders
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