On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Weverton Gomes <[email protected]> wrote: > So, does git not work well with binary large files??
By and large, no it does not. Binary files cannot be merged [1], and without merging, a VCS is hardly better than a decent incremental backup, whether periodic (like daily) or on-demand (you explicitly type a command). I heartily recommend rdiff-backup or any of a number of other options that will do this nicely. Even then, small binary files may as well be VCSd if they're part of an otherwise 'mostly text' tree (like images within HTML files, for example, or perhaps openoffice files [2]). But *large* binary files are more painful. They choke the delta compression mechanism, I think, and you get performance that suddenly reminds you of the other VCSs ;-) Sitaram [1] that's not git's fault, obviously. No generic VCS can do that. [2] there's a plugin somewhere that makes that specific case more efficient by unzipping and storing text, but I haven't used it --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
