[Insight-developers] Need to add images for new tests to Data -- how to do that in a Gerrit topic?

[Stephen Aylward]

I suggest waiting until the presentation at the meeting and having
everyone contribute to making an informed decision.

s

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Matthew McCormick (thewtex)
<matt at mmmccormick.com> wrote:
>> I suggest we split the data into large, small and baselines. Keep the
>> small and baselines with the repository (the way it used to be, no
>> submodule). Use MIDAS for the large data.
>>
>
> This seems like the best route.
>
> When I had my test data repository, at some point I added some large
> images.  The problem is that once a large image has been committed at
> any point in history, it must be downloaded forever.  The Sandlot
> (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108037/) level of FOREVER.  But, as
> Gaëtan points out, the Testing/Data repository size is only 74M with
> the entire history.  Relative to the source tree and the size of a
> build, this is reasonable.  Maybe Git has gotten much better at binary
> diffs and compression since I last tried an image repository.  Gerrit
> review could help keep the additions small.
>
> As Luis points out, support for features that address larger images
> requires larger images to test the features.  A git repository will
> never work for larger images.  The MIDAS system looks very nice.
>
> Either way it goes, they are both good solutions.  The important point
> is that something should be done so that contributers can change the
> test images in a reasonable fashion.
>
> Regards,
> Matt
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