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From: "David Symonds" <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git and binary files
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:54:58 +1100
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On Jan 16, 2008 9:34 PM, Petko Manolov <petkan@nucleusys.com> wrote:
>
> The nature of these binary files is such that i don't care neither about
> their history nor older versions.  Hence the question:  is there an easy
> way to tell git not to bother about the history of these particular files
> and keep the most recent version only?

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.


Dave.