Subject: Re: How it was at GitTogether'08 ?

From: Kai Blin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 16:36:51 +0100

On Saturday 08 November 2008 16:31:04 Jakub Narebski wrote:

> > > * Tim: Git as a Media Repository
> > >  http://www.thousandparsec.net/~tim/media+git.pdf
> >
> > This has kicked off some mailing list discussion; I think this can be
> > a major weak point for git, since checking out only a subtree (and
> > only the latest revision) is the common SVN way, which copes with
> > media repositories and the like just fine.
>
> Well, you can workaround this weakness by (ab)using submodules...
> ...and one should always remember that casual partial checkouts
> interfere a bit with whole-tree commits.

Interesting. How would you use submodules to work around the fact that binary 
file changes diff very bad and produce huge histories with basically no value 
for the user of the working copy? Can you do this from a GUI, easily? We're 
talking about media repositories here, so our users are artists.

Cheers,
Kai

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