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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@GMX.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vcs for hefty video and graphics files
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:41:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101123204149.GA2373@burratino> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <icg5ia$5an$1@dough.gmane.org>

Philippe Lhoste wrote:

> Some game makers keep track of their (large) binary files, along
> with the rest of the project (source code). Rarely in isolation.
> Perforce and PlasticSCM both boast superior support of these files,
> I won't comment on these allegations (over other VCS), just having
> no experience here.

One small thing to add: for this use case, you might like git-annex[1].

It is a shame no single mailing list to follow up to was mentioned.
Hopefully the reply will get to Harry, anyway.

Regards,
Jonathan

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-23 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-22 18:09 vcs for hefty video and graphics files Harry Putnam
2010-11-23 10:37 ` Philippe Lhoste
2010-11-23 16:19   ` Harry Putnam
2010-11-23 20:41   ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2010-11-24 22:42     ` Jakub Narebski
2010-11-25  2:21       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-25 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier

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