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Manage large binary files with git

6 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2014-05-23 · latest 2015-10-01

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  1. …system that works in much the same way, but lets you configure where the files are stored. [1]: https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat
    comment by thristian · 2015-10-01 · in Git Large File Storage 1.0
  2. …admitted it when I first started work on it then there's a chance they would have seen it! :-P [1] https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat/issues/41#issuecomment-88...
    comment by caust1c · 2015-04-09 · in Announcing Git Large File Storage
  3. I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I put a lot of work into the fork of git fat: https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat The reason why we chose it at the time was because of the reason you mentioned. git-annex was really difficult to set…
    comment by caust1c · 2015-03-14 · in Ask HN: Large code repository in Git?
  4. You can do either. Or both if you really want. $ git ls-remote From https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat.git 4c86c39bb5fca55a692d11680ed62fd5cb183921 refs/pull/14/head cb850f9d0bd09f8bb903e1c5959cef24ceb51695 refs/pull/14/merge The merge ref…
    comment by caust1c · 2015-01-22 · in A better pull request
  5. …has a real copy of the file in the working copy of the repository (as a posed to symlinks). https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat
    comment by caust1c · 2014-05-23 · in How to handle big repositories with Git