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I stopped using git to track my blog (about 175 posts) because a blog tends to have a lot more than just text files. There's over 300 jpgs just in blog post re

• kilovoltaire 8y ago
  You could .gitignore your images folder (or store it outside of the repo) and still get the benefits of tracking text changes.
• e12e 8y ago
  > 500x 1920x1080 jpgs. > > The .git/ folder ended up taking up gigs upon gigs of space. Sounds very big for 500 small (IE not 10/20 mega pixel) jpegs? Even at a generous 500k that should be just ~250 mb of that, unless you have on average four or more "versions" of each image? But I'm assuming the 1080p jpegs are "prints" and so doesn't change much?
  • nickjj 8y ago
    There's only 1 version of each file and they never change. Outside of git it's not much space but I remember looking at the .git/ folder a couple of years ago and it was around 4GB. At that point I blew out the directory and have gone gitless on my blog.
    • e12e 8y ago
      On what filsystem? (in case hard links are being mis-counted as copies). Also note that git for a time was pretty broken re:binary files, but that has sine been fixed/improved.
      • nickjj 8y ago
        I was running xubuntu 14 back then, ext4 with no links. I don't remember the exact version of git but it was the one that came with Ubuntu's default package list.