git大文件管理

　　由于git在commit时保存整个文件系统，如果在文件系统中有一些大的二进制文件，比如图片，视频，那么很快你的repo就将变得很大，clone这个repo时也会耗用越来越多的时间。有没有什么办法来优化这个问题呢？

　　一个可行的方法是使用git-fat : https://github.com/jedbrown/git-fat

其原理是：将二进制文件本身存放于共享文件系统中，保存在git repo中的信息仅仅是一些meta数据。

1.安装： git-fat是一个shell脚本，只要下载该脚本，放到你的path变量中就安装好了

2.使用：创建一个.gitattributes文件，来描述哪些文件是一个二进制文件：

$ cd path-to-your-repository
$ cat >> .gitattributes
*.png filter=fat -crlf
*.jpg filter=fat -crlf
*.gz  filter=fat -crlf
^D

运行git fat init 激活上面的文件后缀，从此你可以像一般文件一样来git add, git commit那些.png,.gz,.jpg文件，而文件本身却保存于repo之外的地方；

如果你的文件本身保存于一个共享服务器上，你可以创建一个.gitfat文件，该文件中写入以下内容

[rsync]
remote = your.remote-host.org:/share/fat-store
sshuser = yourusername

下面是在本地保存文件的使用流程和相关命令：

$ git init repo
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/repo/.git/
$ cd repo
$ git fat init
$ cat > .gitfat
[rsync]
remote = localhost:/tmp/fat-store
$ mkdir -p /tmp/fat-store               # make sure the remote directory exists
$ echo ‘*.gz filter=fat -crlf‘ > .gitattributes
$ git add .gitfat .gitattributes
$ git commit -m‘Initial repository‘
[master (root-commit) eb7facb] Initial repository
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .gitattributes
 create mode 100644 .gitfat
$ curl https://nodeload.github.com/jedbrown/git-fat/tar.gz/master -o master.tar.gz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  6449  100  6449    0     0   7741      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  9786
$ git add master.tar.gz
git-fat filter-clean: caching to /tmp/repo/.git/fat/objects/b3489819f81603b4c04e8ed134b80bace0810324
$ git commit -m‘Added master.tar.gz‘
[master b85a96f] Added master.tar.gz
git-fat filter-clean: caching to /tmp/repo/.git/fat/objects/b3489819f81603b4c04e8ed134b80bace0810324
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 master.tar.gz
$ git show --pretty=oneline HEAD
918063043a6156172c2ad66478c6edd5c7df0217 Add master.tar.gz
diff --git a/master.tar.gz b/master.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12f7d52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/master.tar.gz
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+#$# git-fat 1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae
$ git fat push
Pushing to localhost:/tmp/fat-store
building file list ...
1 file to consider

sent 61 bytes  received 12 bytes  48.67 bytes/sec
total size is 6449  speedup is 88.34

上述过程完毕后，对应的二进制文件就已经保存好了，那么后面如何使用呢？

$ cd ..
$ git clone repo repo2
Cloning into ‘repo2‘...
done.
$ cd repo2
$ git fat init                          # don‘t forget
$ ls -l                                 # file is just a placeholder
total 4
-rw-r--r--  1 jed  users  53 Nov 25 22:42 master.tar.gz
$ cat master.tar.gz                     # holds the SHA1 of the file
#$# git-fat 1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae
$ git fat pull
receiving file list ...
1 file to consider
1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae
        6449 100%    6.15MB/s    0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 30 bytes  received 6558 bytes  4392.00 bytes/sec
total size is 6449  speedup is 0.98
Restoring 1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae -> master.tar.gz
git-fat filter-smudge: restoring from /tmp/repo2/.git/fat/objects/1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae
$ git status
git-fat filter-clean: caching to /tmp/repo2/.git/fat/objects/1f218834a137f7b185b498924e7a030008aee2ae
# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean
$ ls -l                                 # recovered the full file
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 jed users 6449 Nov 25 17:10 master.tar.gz