title: git config settings for large files
body: <p>What are some recommended git config settings when working with very large binary files (> 500 MB)?</p>
  
  <p>Reading <a href="http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.10.1/git-config.html#_variables" rel="nofollow">the documentation</a>, it seems as if setting <code>pack.window</code> to 0, <code>pack.depth</code> to something very low like 2, and <code>pack.compression</code> to 0, git operations would be faster, but this doesn't seem to be the case.</p>
  
  <p>Are than any other options that I'm missing? I'm hoping to speed up even simple commands like <code>git log</code> because it seems to pause at every commit with a large file.</p>