Re: Binary files

From: Bryan Turner <bturner@atlassian.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2017, 07:58 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGyf7-FFQir7tnyW3RZp4vk7Y1qD3m34iTb4xUeKtm8rOrdL0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Volodymyr Sendetskyi <volodymyrse@devcom.com> wrote:

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> 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?

Like Git LFS or git annex? Features have been implemented to better handle large files; they're just not necessarily part of core Git. Have you checked whether one of those solutions might work for your use case?

Best regards, Bryan Turner