Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB
by namdnay on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:23PM
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you're not going to merge binary files, so git isn't the right tool. the standard way is to use maven. git handles your sources, and anything binary (libs, resources etc) goes on the nexus (where it is versioned centrally) and is referenced in your poms: simple and powerful
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Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB
by heavenlyhash on Saturday April 26, 2014 @11:29AM
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git is "the stupid content tracker", not "the stupid merge tool". Even for things you have no intention of branching or merging, it still gives you control over versioning... and there's a huge gap between the level of control a hash tree gives you versus trusting some remote server to consistently give you the same file when you give it the same request.