From: Martin Langhoff Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:40:50 GMT Subject: Re: git with large files... Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:47 PM, David Aguilar wrote: > I'm not sure if it was the "big files" part that Randal was responding > to. IIUC it was the "using git for deployment" part. > > Packaging tools (Makefiles, .rpm, .deb, etc) are a better suited for > deploying software. Fair enough. On that topic, I have to say that git, with suitable scripts controlling it, has been good to me for deployment to webservers (ie: synchronized deployment on server clusters). Limited to interpreted languages (py, php, etc). I am not afraid of Makefiles, rpms or debs but sometimes they are a bit too much overhead. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff