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by seunosewa 159 days ago
There's no reason why Claude can't use git to manage the folders that it controls.
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Most of these files are binary and are not a good fit for git’s graph based diff tracker…you’re basically ending up with a new full sized binary for every file version. It works from a version perspective, but is very inefficient and not what git was built for.
Git isn't good with big files.

I wanted to comment more, but this new tool is Mac only for now, so there isn't much of a point.

Too hard for AI to make crossplatform tools.
git with lfs

There is also xet by huggingface which tries to make git work better with big files