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Re: general question about git

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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 21, 2014, 15:25 UTC
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Miller, Hugh <HughMiller@chevron.com> wrote:
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> I am interested in exploring the possibility of using versioning for "data", that is versioning non-text, non-code file sets. Typical examples are the data files or "project files" used by some application. These file sets typically contain binary files; these files can be somewhat large, 1GB to 10GB is not unusual.
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> Would git be a suitable tool for this purpose ?
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> Ideally, even if the data files can be versioned this way, one would probably prefer to build the versioning tools into the application.
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> Would the git libraries be suitable for this further aim ?

Stock Git is still unsuitable for this purpose, but I recommend you check out git-annex.

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