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Git and Very Large Codebases

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BHBrian Herman <brianherman@gmail.com>
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Apr 20, 2010, 09:00 UTC
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Can git support codebases on the order of magnitude of Gigabytes? For example, a game developer might want to use git as their SCM software but their codebases can be in gigabytes in scale. If git cannot support this how would one begin to create this support?

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