From: David Lang <david@lang.hm>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 04:13:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1707232109480.20418@qynat-yncgbc>
In-Reply-To: <FF08CB42-35AC-4B97-BB02-2473BEDE66A1@gmail.com>

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Farshid Zavareh wrote:

> I'll probably test this myself, but would modifying and committing a 4GB text 
> file actually add 4GB to the repository's size? I anticipate that it won't, 
> since Git keeps track of the changes only, instead of storing a copy of the 
> whole file (whereas this is not the case with binary files, hence the need for 
> LFS).

well, it wouldn't be 4G because text compresses well, but if the file changes 
drastically from version to version (say a quarterly report), the diff won't 
help.

David Lang