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when every other field, including science and civil engineering, seems to get away without it or any equivalent tool? I've worked in civil engineering and we d
by dagw 4y ago
when every other field, including science and civil engineering, seems to get away without it or any equivalent tool?
I've worked in civil engineering and we definitely used 'equivalent' tools, primarily Projectwise and Perforce. The main problem is that git's support for large files and binary data is pretty bad, and no one over at "git HQ" seems particularly interested in solving the problems this market has. All the Git UI tools that exist are written by and for software developers, with no thought as to what the actual needs of managing a large Civil engineering project actually are. Git offers no value, compared to other tools, if 90+% of what you are checking in are things like CAD files, Excel sheets, elevation models, and geotechnical survey data.
- shetill 4y agoGit LFS?
- dagw 4y agoFeels like a hack and a workaround rather than an integrated part of git. From a UX perspective it's a hassle to deal with and inconsistent (different files require different commands to manage based on...if they're "large"?) and it seems to be rather unloved and ignored by most git UI tools and git developers. I don't doubt that it's possible to build a tool useful for civil engineers (and other fields with similar challenges) on top of git, but as far as I know no one has showed any interest in that.