[Insight-developers] Data submodule was reverted again ( staging check needed? )

[Johnson, Hans J]

Brad,

Thank you for the the explanation again.  I agree that putting the test
data directly into the repository is not a good option.

Hans



On 1/25/11 5:09 PM, "Brad King" <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

>On 01/25/2011 02:40 PM, Gaëtan Lehmann wrote:
>> I still can't see, nor did I get a good justification when I asked for
>> it on the mailing list, to have moved the data to a separate git
>> submodule.
>
>It's in a submodule because the size of the ITKData repository is a
>significant fraction of the source code size of ITK.  Assume for a moment
>that all data are in the source tree.  If a big file is added at any point
>in history and then removed, suddenly everyone's Github forks of ITK.git
>need space for that object in history forever and ever.  Without the data
>in the tree everyone can push around a much smaller repository.
>
>> I think we should discuss that at the meeting in Boston.
>
>I've been making progress on this front.  Someone from Kitware will talk
>about it in Boston.
>
>-Brad
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