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Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions

From
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2009, 20:41 UTC
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Heya,
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:34, seanh<seanh.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2. They don't want to look at the latex source but the PDFs built from
> it, which they're going to annotate with their comments. So I need an
> easy way for them to get the PDF of each commit from gitweb without
> having to checkout the repo and build it themselves. Normally I
> wouldn't commit the PDF files into the repo because they're compiled
> files not source files, but it seems that just building a PDF and
> committing it along with each commit to trunk would be by far the
> easiest way to achieve this. But will git store the PDFs efficiently, or
> will the repo start to get really big?

If they only care about the pdf anyway, why not have a separate branch to which you commit the pdf's instead?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier
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  1. seanhAug 27, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 27, 2009
  3. Matthieu MoyAug 27, 2009
  4. Paolo BonziniAug 28, 2009
  5. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2009
  6. seanhAug 28, 2009
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 28, 2009
  8. Matthias AndreeAug 28, 2009
  9. Merging in Subversion 1.5 (was: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions)Jakub Narebski, Aug 28, 2009
  10. Avery PennarunAug 28, 2009
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  22. Junio C HamanoAug 27, 2009
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