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Subject: Re: Git as electronic lab notebook
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Cc: Thomas Johnson <thomas.j.johnson@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Ciprian Dorin, Craciun schreef:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Thomas Johnson
> <thomas.j.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:

>> 4. Run the program, which generates a giant (10MB-4G) output text file,
>> Experiment123.log. Update my LabNotebook.txt file.

>     * even if you prefer having the logs, it's best to let Git handle
> the compression; because even if only some small parts change from the
> original txt file, I would guess that the BZip-ped file looks quite
> different;
>

Is git able to handle 4Gig files? I've heard git loads every file 
completely in memory before handling it...