Git Large Files
The cluster centers on Git's challenges handling large repositories, binary files, and assets, causing performance issues and bloat, with discussions of workarounds like Git LFS and git-annex.
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What prevents Git from simply working better with large files?
Quantify "git doesn't handle large repos". Large in discrete size or file count?
How's it scale w/ repo size? How about large binaries? Those are the biggest pain points I have with git.
git is pretty bad at handling large binary blobs. Good old timestamped directories with hardlinks (a la rsync --link-dest) probably works better.
There's gitLFS but it requires some discipline to use.
anyone have info / experience with this combined with handling large files? git is a bit crap with large files, wondering if this will do better. (for example 3d game project or other project with lots of fairly sizeable files. (assets / packed files etc.))
Did you think using git-annex or git-lfs ?
Git has large file storage now: https://git-lfs.github.com/
Git is much better at it nowadays thanks to Git LFS which just stores the blobs.
git is not a great choice for large files, which is why git-lfs is a thing too.