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Re: Git Vs. Svn for a project which *must* distribute binaries too.

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jun 5, 2007, 03:58 UTC
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, david@lang.hm wrote:
> 
> if you put the binaries in a seperate repository and do shallow clones to
> avoid getting all the old stuff wouldn't that work well?

Yes. I'm not a huge fan of shallow clones, and I suspect they've not gotten all that much testing, but that would certainly solve the problem of getting unnecessarily much data..

		Linus
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