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Re:The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git by TZubiri on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:55AM (#44920296)
"Will they remember to write the filter? Maybe, "

Nothing wrong with "forgetting" to write the filter, and then if it's taking more than 10 minutes, write the filter.

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Re:The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git by Too on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:06AM (#44920339)
What? Why would you want to expose a beginner to waiting 10 minutes unnecessarily. How would they even know what they did wrong or what's a reasonable time to wait, ask chatgpt "why is my git clone taking 10 minutes"?!

Is this really the best we can do in terms of user experience? No. git need to step up.

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Re:The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git by TZubiri on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:23PM (#44924790)
Git is not for beginners in general. And large repos are less for beginners.

A beginner will follow instructions in a README "Run git clone" or "run git clone --depth=1

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