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Congrats on the HN launch. How does this improve or expand or blow git-lfs[1] out of the water because if I needed large blob file support it's what I would use
by gigatexal 3y ago
Congrats on the HN launch. How does this improve or expand or blow git-lfs[1] out of the water because if I needed large blob file support it's what I would use instead. It offers pointers to the big files to the hosted git instead of pushing around the binaries itself -- though I am speculating since I've not used it myself just read about it online.
I mean the nice UI and collab features are indeed improvements but I'm thinking more core git specific improvements.
[1] https://git-lfs.com/ https://git-lfs.com/
- sasham 3y agoGit LFS solves the problem if you need to have occasional large files in your repo. It doesn't work great though when you have a lot of them or when they're an integral part of your product, because it's slow and introduces devops problems (e.g. you can bomb your repo by committing from a clone without Git LFS installed). Companies that have many large files to manage rarely use it because of this.
- gigatexal 3y agoOkay. That’s fair and info I didn’t have.