Re: git and binary files

From: Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2008, 14:45 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0801161643480.5260@bender.nucleusys.com>
In-Reply-To: <D3716EB3-10B1-4D96-AB12-BD86CBB189CB@wincent.com>

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

> If the exact contents of these large binaries *really* don't matter, as 
> you say they don't, than why don't you just commit one and never touch 
> it again?

Unfortunately those binaries does change, although the process is slow and not very frequent. And this is why it pokes me in the eye - for changing a few bytes i end up with much larger repository.

 		Petko

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