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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <tiger12506@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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
>>
>
>
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