From: Wesley J. Landaker Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:36:31 GMT Subject: Re: Fwd: Git and Large Binaries: A Proposed Solution Message-ID: <201101211436.32033.wjl@icecavern.net> In-Reply-To: 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 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.