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Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution

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Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date
Jan 21, 2011, 21:36 UTC
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On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:57:21 Eric Montellese wrote:
> To whet your appetite to read all of the below (I know it's long),
> this is the root of the solution:
> 
> ---       Don't track binaries in git.  Track their hashes.       ---
Comment from the peanut gallery:

I haven't read your approach in great detail, but just in case you are not aware, there is a project call git-annex <http://git-annex.branchable.com/> by Joey Hess that I believe takes a similar approach.

Since you've obviously given this a lot of thought, you might want to take a peek at that and see if it already does what you want, or if your proposal does something significantly different/better.

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  1. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  2. Wesley J. LandakerJan 21, 2011
  3. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  4. Jeff KingJan 21, 2011
  5. Eric MontelleseJan 21, 2011
  6. Sverre RabbelierJan 22, 2011
  7. Pete WyckoffJan 23, 2011
  8. Scott ChaconJan 26, 2011
  9. Eric MontelleseJan 26, 2011
  10. Joey HessJan 26, 2011
  11. Jakub NarebskiJan 26, 2011
  12. Alexander MiselerMar 10, 2011
  13. Jeff KingMar 10, 2011
  14. Eric MontelleseMar 13, 2011
  15. Jeff KingMar 13, 2011
  16. Alexander MiselerMar 13, 2011
  17. Jeff KingMar 14, 2011
  18. Eric MontelleseMar 16, 2011
  19. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyMar 16, 2011
  20. Joey HessJan 22, 2011

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