Git-lfs has been helpful for managing my repo of scientific research data. Hundreds of large-ish excel files, pngs, and hdf5 add up quickly if you're doing lots

Git-lfs has been helpful for managing my repo of scientific research data. Hundreds of large-ish excel files, pngs, and hdf5 add up quickly if you're doing lots of small edits. There's still some warts (don't forget git lfs init after cloning!), buts it's mostly fast and transparent. I also ponied up $5 a month to get 50 gigs or so of lfs storage. Decent deal imho.