From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sverre Rabbelier Subject: Re: Using git to track my PhD thesis, couple of questions Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:41:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090827203402.GC7168@kisimul> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: seanh X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 27 22:41:34 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mglmn-0003XD-3R for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:41:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752642AbZH0UlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:41:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752622AbZH0UlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:41:23 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:40702 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752586AbZH0UlX (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:41:23 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 25so325354eya.19 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:41:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=ptf4cHKhcgfWUjok1R+7GN7eNnt77hJTqyYqAePWHy4=; b=FagvmwR4xdG/ozNOdb/MhYUiphTPhgzhMt27zgeqfJleWNTWliLBCYr2W/JOi46Mnc 6xj44/JSLEGjNI0G9NBuDXFAUISGpXGd4x/YN6a9+E6Jdd1YHHTA2tVEM1LmPdyNeJaT MOKPQLP6tEI66d9mTEP7dXhQJdU56bhQX4NK8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=u9r2IdpBrfDTyRJ5NV+Jq8qKjMqbeuaRHlH5srvJ9txdXTU7cLf5ko6FRPR1FqV3pz TG1NRMFdcQmP7byv1KWd9dMhBHj2QupSzogbejT8fKA1W/5DwJUnXVpdeH2bN7BaEL2T ZrDts4p6+EqJMEGGh8E2A2wvSqsMHkNA60+wg= Received: by 10.216.55.201 with SMTP id k51mr45443wec.184.1251405684087; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:41:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090827203402.GC7168@kisimul> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Heya, On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 13:34, seanh 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? -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier