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This isn't true at all. We were storing binary files separately via Maven for Java projects for almost 20 years now. This was done with SVN projects. Keeping t
by happymellon 3y ago
This isn't true at all. We were storing binary files separately via Maven for Java projects for almost 20 years now.
This was done with SVN projects. Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time.
[Edit] The only folks who seem to want to do this are game developers, and they are generally not people you would want to emulate.
- theLiminator 3y agoThen how come git-lfs even exists at all? There's clearly a demand for it. Whether it's good practice is up for debate. > Keeping the blobs out of your source repos has been the preferred way for a long time. This is just appeal to tradition.
- happymellon 3y ago> This is just appeal to tradition. It might be, but the arguement was that we don't do it because of git. We haven't been doing it for a long time, but that's not because of git.