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Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
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El 16/1/2008, a las 14:58, Petko Manolov escribi=F3:

> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> I think that you're missing the point of version control.  It's not =
=20
>> only about having an up-to-date source tree, but also about being =20
>> able to go back to a certain revision.
>
> No contradiction here.  In my case old source code will work =20
> perfectly with new binaries/firmware.  That's why i don't _need_ the =
=20
> history, only the latest stuff in order to save space.

You may be interested in the history, but the entire purpose of any =20
version control system (not just Git) is to record exactly that: =20
history.

If the exact contents of these large binaries *really* don't matter, =20
as you say they don't, than why don't you just commit one and never =20
touch it again?

Cheers,
Wincent