[GTALUG] Git Large File Storage extension

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:21:19PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> Github has developed a "Large File Storage" extension to git.  Written
> in Go, open sourced.
> 
> https://github.com/github/git-lfs
> 
> This is their blog announcement:
> 
> https://github.com/blog/1986-announcing-git-large-file-storage-lfs
> 
> I haven't dealt with the problems of large files in git, but I've
> heard it's ugly, so this is interesting.  I'm curious if more
> experienced git users actually think this is a good idea.

Well for one it certainly breaks the idea that the git tree is self
contained.

I think it is a solution trying to solve a problem that should be solved
some other way.

Perhaps some files are so huge they don't have any reason to be stored
in your code tree.  They may need a better designed storage system of
their own.

So I don't get it, and don't think it fits the git model at all (then
again I don't think github does either for that matter).

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Len Sorensen