From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:41:04 GMT Subject: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090827203402.GC7168@kisimul> Heya, On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:34, seanh wrote: > 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