It's not ideal. It will end up storing two copies of the data files, one in the .git folder as a blob and one for the regular file in the checkout. There are

It's not ideal. It will end up storing two copies of the data files, one in the .git folder as a blob and one for the regular file in the checkout. There are projects (http://git-annex.branchable.com/ http://git-annex.branchable.com/ and https://github.com/schacon/git-media https://github.com/schacon/git-media) to try and get around this issue but then you are not really using git to manage the files directly anymore.