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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Git and Very Large Codebases
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Brian Herman <brianherman@gmail.com> writes:

> Can git support codebases on the order of magnitude of Gigabytes?
> For example, a game developer might want to use git as their SCM
> software but their codebases can be in gigabytes in scale.
> If git cannot support this how would one begin to create this support?

Take a look at git-bigfiles project.

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Jakub Narebski
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