Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions

[demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com>]

2009/8/27 seanh <seanh.nospam@gmail.com>:
> 2. They don't want to look at the latex source but the PDFs built from
> it, which they're going to annotate with their comments. So I need an
> easy way for them to get the PDF of each commit from gitweb without
> having to checkout the repo and build it themselves. Normally I
> wouldn't commit the PDF files into the repo because they're compiled
> files not source files, but it seems that just building a PDF and
> committing it along with each commit to trunk would be by far the
> easiest way to achieve this. But will git store the PDFs efficiently, or
> will the repo start to get really big?

As you can generate the PDF's from the latex then just hack gitweb to
let them download it from there.

Yves


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