From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:21:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161517260.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
In-Reply-To: <ee77f5c20801160254u53e07773qb4125ffd90cf7619@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, David Symonds wrote:

> If you don't care about versioning those files, why would you use a
> version control system? Just store them somewhere else, and use
> symlinks.

That is certainly a way of doing it.  However, it will be much simpler and 
fast to be able to "git clone" and then "git pull" every once in a while. 
The alternative involves "cp -a" or most likely "scp -r" the binaries 
along with the repository and you can never be sure that both are in sync.


 		Petko