Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more

2014-07-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 05:21:50AM -0700, Dominik Rauch wrote: Hi! Although I've read a lot of resources concerning the topic Handling binary files with Git I'm still confused. Hopefully you can help me to find definitive answers :-) If you ask people about Git and binary files the

Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more

2014-07-17 Thread Dominik Rauch
I'm not trying to solve a problem in our build system with a VCS. I'm trying to find out if we can safely switch from Subversion to Git without running into performance problems and furthermore I'm trying to find out more about the internals of Git and where all those rumors of Git is not able

Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more

2014-07-17 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 03:08:40AM -0700, Dominik Rauch wrote: I'm not trying to solve a problem in our build system with a VCS. I'm trying to find out if we can safely switch from Subversion to Git without running into performance problems and furthermore I'm trying to find out more about the

[git-users] Git and binary files ... once more

2014-07-16 Thread Dominik Rauch
Hi! Although I've read a lot of resources concerning the topic Handling binary files with Git I'm still confused. Hopefully you can help me to find definitive answers :-) If you ask people about Git and binary files the answers are often: Git is a SCM and not a backup solution or dependences

Re: [git-users] Git and binary files ... once more

2014-07-16 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Dominik Rauch dominik.rauch@gmail.com wrote: [...] Main question: The existence of tools like git-annex, git-fat, git-media, etc. hints that Git has problems with binary files in some way. Although I've studied as much internal docs as I could