Re: Binary files
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- Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jul 21, 2017, 17:46 UTC
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- <0d2dcfc0-81e0-ff16-3d21-7148978f8100@gmail.com>
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On 20/07/2017 22:40, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes: >> On 20/07/2017 09:41, Volodymyr Sendetskyi wrote: >>> It is known, that git handles badly storing binary files in its >>> repositories at all. >>> This is especially about large files: even without any changes to >>> these files, their copies are snapshotted on each commit. So even >>> repositories with a small amount of code can grove very fast in size >>> if they contain some great binary files. Alongside this, the SVN is >>> much better about that, because it make changes to the server version >>> of file only if some changes were done. >> >> You already got some proposals on what you could try for making large >> binary files handling easier, but I just wanted to comment on this >> part of your message, as it doesn`t seem to be correct. > > All correct. Thanks.
No problem, thanks for confirmation, being relatively new around it`s appreciated, at least knowing that I got it correct myself :)