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Does Fossil support some sort of a backend for large/binary files? This, more than anything else, is my gripe with Git. LFS is a pain in the ass, and it sometim
by m0zg 5y ago
Does Fossil support some sort of a backend for large/binary files? This, more than anything else, is my gripe with Git. LFS is a pain in the ass, and it sometimes breaks, too. I want something that's baked in and doesn't need to be enabled on the side.
- wyoung2 5y agoI daresay there is no DVCS appropriate for many large files that change. You want something more like a classic non-distributed VCS so you're not cloning the entire history of huge files. Worst is when they're data-compressed so you're not only pulling all historical versions but also most every byte of each historical version. I wrote an article for the Fossil docs covering this, but the core experiment can be run against any VCS: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/image-format-vs-repo-size.md https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/image-format-vs-re...