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by theLiminator 1051 days ago
How about why not? The only reason it's not done is because git doesn't support it.
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motoboi 1051 days ago
Maybe I came across as accusative, but I'm genuinely curious. Do you have 1Tb text files or this is some kind of media management for video production, something like that?
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ptx 1051 days ago
Because it's a source control system, which means it's intended to store source code, not the artifacts generated from the source code. It seems far-fetched that anyone would manage to author 1 TB of source code.
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happymellon 1051 days ago
This isn't true at all. We were storing binary files separately via Maven for Java projects for almost 20 years now.

This was done with SVN projects. Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time.

[Edit] The only folks who seem to want to do this are game developers, and they are generally not people you would want to emulate.

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theLiminator 1051 days ago
Then how come git-lfs even exists at all? There's clearly a demand for it. Whether it's good practice is up for debate.

> Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time.

This is just appeal to tradition.

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happymellon 1051 days ago
> This is just appeal to tradition.

It might be, but the arguement was that we don't do it because of git.

We haven't been doing it for a long time, but that's not because of git.

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