It seems like I somehow hit send too early, but here is the link I intended to include earlier.
https://git-lfs.github.com/ 2016-03-11 7:50 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <[email protected]>: > If hosting on github, and option is also to use git LFS which github > seems to support. I have never used it though. > > > 2016-03-11 2:55 GMT+01:00 Tiger12506 <[email protected]>: >> I have no authority in what happens, nor should you necessary take my >> advice, of course, but it might be wise to carefully consider how you want >> to store large binary data in git. >> >> If the diffs do not make sense, and are large, then you are using version >> control about as inefficiently as you possibly can, and your fetch (part of >> pull) operation is going to get huge, fast. >> >> One of the solutions for this (one at random that comes to mind, not >> endorsing it) is git-annex. >> >> The time to think about this, IMHO, is before you create the repo. >> >> On 3/10/2016 6:10 PM, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: >>> >>> I suggested splitting the 3D models long ago but there was some resistance >>> even though >>> I really can't imagine how 3D models belong in a directory structure with >>> schematic symbols. >>> >>> Some thought would need to go into the organization of the repositories >>> and how these >>> would look like as an offline directory structure for users who prefer to >>> pull the repositories. >>> I think any STEP and IGES files should be compressed; their data structure >>> results in very >>> high compression (often as much as 10:1). Although this would result in >>> crazy diffs, git >>> will not complain. Crazy diffs on modifying STEP or IGES files is >>> inevitable anyway. >>> >>> I think ultimately a hosted solution with features similar to Altium's >>> "vault" is the way to >>> go; however that requires some hosting infrastructure and development of >>> the API and >>> any code/scripts to make it all happen. >>> >>> - Cirilo >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
