Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread Farshid Zavareh
that binaries do. > On 24 Jul 2017, at 2:13 pm, David Lang <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Farshid Zavareh wrote: > >> I'll probably test this myself, but would modifying and committing a 4GB >> text file actually add 4GB to the repository's size?

Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread Farshid Zavareh
this is not the case with binary files, hence the need for LFS). Kind regards, Farshid > On 24 Jul 2017, at 12:29 pm, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Farshid, > > On 24 July 2017 at 12:01, Farshid Zavareh <fhzava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'v been ha

Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

2017-07-23 Thread Farshid Zavareh
Hey all. I'v been handed over a project that uses Git LFS for storing large CSV files. My understanding is that the main benefit of using Git LFS is to keep the repository small for binary files, where Git can't keep track of the changes and ends up storing whole files for each revision. For