Re: Git as electronic lab notebook

From: Johan 't Hart <johanthart@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 20, 2009, 00:15 UTC
Message-ID: <4B2D6CA5.3070304@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8e04b5820912190538v2e9ef109me3a1515040127b39@mail.gmail.com>

Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schreef:

> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Thomas Johnson
> <thomas.j.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 4. Run the program, which generates a giant (10MB-4G) output text file,
>> Experiment123.log. Update my LabNotebook.txt file.

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>     * even if you prefer having the logs, it's best to let Git handle
> the compression; because even if only some small parts change from the
> original txt file, I would guess that the BZip-ped file looks quite
> different;
>

Is git able to handle 4Gig files? I've heard git loads every file completely in memory before handling it...