On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Volodymyr Sendetskyi <volodymy...@devcom.com> wrote: > It is known, that git handles badly storing binary files in its > repositories at all. > This is especially about large files: even without any changes to > these files, their copies are snapshotted on each commit. So even > repositories with a small amount of code can grove very fast in size > if they contain some great binary files. Alongside this, the SVN is > much better about that, because it make changes to the server version > of file only if some changes were done. > > So the question is: why not implementing some feature, that would > somehow handle this problem?
There are 'external' solutions such as git LFS and git-annex, mentioned in replies nearby. But note there are also efforts to handle large binary files internally https://public-inbox.org/git/3420d9ae9ef86b78af1abe721891233e3f5865a2.1500508695.git.jonathanta...@google.com/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20170713173459.3559-1-...@jeffhostetler.com/ https://public-inbox.org/git/20170620075523.26961-1-chrisc...@tuxfamily.org/
