Re: Binary files

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 20, 2017, 20:40 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo9sekfjm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <d4b1b92d-6ab1-7e6f-4afd-6194a5ba8e40@gmail.com>

Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes:

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> On 20/07/2017 09:41, Volodymyr Sendetskyi wrote:
>> It is known, that git handles badly storing binary files in its
>> repositories at all.
>> This is especially about large files: even without any changes to
>> these files, their copies are snapshotted on each commit. So even
>> repositories with a small amount of code can grove very fast in size
>> if they contain some great binary files. Alongside this, the SVN is
>> much better about that, because it make changes to the server version
>> of file only if some changes were done.
>
> You already got some proposals on what you could try for making large 
> binary files handling easier, but I just wanted to comment on this 
> part of your message, as it doesn`t seem to be correct.

All correct.  Thanks.