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

[Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>]

Heya,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:34, seanh<seanh.nospam@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

If they only care about the pdf anyway, why not have a separate branch
to which you commit the pdf's instead?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier