From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petko Manolov Subject: Re: git and binary files Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:21:43 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: David Symonds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jan 16 14:23:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JF8En-00040i-H5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:23:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753344AbYAPNW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753338AbYAPNW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:22:59 -0500 Received: from n152-u15.cabletel.bg ([89.253.152.15]:47991 "EHLO zztop.nucleusys.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753334AbYAPNW6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:22:58 -0500 Received: from bender.nucleusys.com ([192.168.234.2]) by zztop.nucleusys.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JF8EH-0007Hy-OG; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:22:53 +0200 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, David Symonds wrote: > If you don't care about versioning those files, why would you use a > version control system? Just store them somewhere else, and use > symlinks. That is certainly a way of doing it. However, it will be much simpler and fast to be able to "git clone" and then "git pull" every once in a while. The alternative involves "cp -a" or most likely "scp -r" the binaries along with the repository and you can never be sure that both are in sync. Petko