Re: Binary files

> On 20 Jul 2017, at 09:41, Volodymyr Sendetskyi <volodymyrse@devcom.com> 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.
> 
> So the question is: why not implementing some feature, that would
> somehow handle this problem?
> 
> Of course, I don't know the internal git structure and the way of
> working + some nuances (likely about the snapshots at all and the way
> they are done), so handling this may be a great problem. But the
> easiest feature for me as an end user will be something like
> '.gitbinary', where I can list binary files, that would behave like on
> SVN, or even more optimal, if you can implement it. Maybe there will
> be a need for separate kinds of repositories, or even servers. But
> that would be a great change and a logical way of next git's
> evolution.