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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anon-3988 Aug 16, 2025 View on HN

What prevents Git from simply working better with large files?

crasco Jan 22, 2016 View on HN

Quantify "git doesn't handle large repos". Large in discrete size or file count?

dilap Jul 8, 2018 View on HN

How's it scale w/ repo size? How about large binaries? Those are the biggest pain points I have with git.

oefrha Dec 22, 2019 View on HN

git is pretty bad at handling large binary blobs. Good old timestamped directories with hardlinks (a la rsync --link-dest) probably works better.

johnwalkr Nov 24, 2023 View on HN

There's gitLFS but it requires some discipline to use.

vectorEQ Sep 3, 2019 View on HN

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.))

dgsb Nov 22, 2017 View on HN

Did you think using git-annex or git-lfs ?

mayank Mar 17, 2021 View on HN

Git has large file storage now: https://git-lfs.github.com/

sofixa Jan 20, 2023 View on HN

Git is much better at it nowadays thanks to Git LFS which just stores the blobs.

urda Jan 9, 2024 View on HN

git is not a great choice for large files, which is why git-lfs is a thing too.