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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:42:57 +0000 (GMT)
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Cc: David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
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Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Petko Manolov wrote:

> 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.

I think that you're missing the point of version control.  It's not only 
about having an up-to-date source tree, but also about being able to go 
back to a certain revision.

What you want is most likely covered by "rsync -au".

Hth,
Dscho