I believe GP was saying two separate things. First of all, it's unusual to commit binaries to source control, because they can't be merged, etc. Second of all

I believe GP was saying two separate things. First of all, it's unusual to commit binaries to source control, because they can't be merged, etc. Second of all, he personally isn't comfortable with binaries and would rather compile from source. It'd be more traditional to release binaries separately, maybe using the following: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software