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by rewmie 998 days ago
> Lots of people are saying that having large files in a repo is wrong, bad, bad design, incorrect usage.

I don't think that is true. You do see people warn that having large files in Git repositories, or any repository that wasn't designed with support for large files in mind, is "wrong", in the sense that there are drawbacks for using a system that was not designed to handle them.

Here's a historical doc of Linus Torvalds commenting Git's support for large files (or lack thereof)

https://marc.info/?l=git&m=124121401124923&w=2