Re: git and binary files

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From: Petko Manolov
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 - 6:39 am

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:


You're absobloodylutely correct.  I was too preoccupied defining my problem 
in a better way, which left the subject kind of dumb.  Well, quite dumb. 
:-)


I don't agree here.  Assume that whatever you're working on require 
firmware for a device that won't change during the lifetime of the 
software project.  The newest version of the said firmware is mostly 
bugfixes and you basically don't want to revert to the older ones. 
Consider the microcode for modern Pentiums, Core 2, etc.

What i am trying to suggest is that there might be cases when you need 
something in the repository, but you don't want GIT to keep it's history 
nor it's predecessors.  Leaving it out breaks the atomicity of such 
repository and makes the project management more complex.

There's a few examples out there that shows how to solve this, but it 
seems inconvenient and involves branching, cloning, etc.  Isn't it 
possible to add something like:

 	"git nohistory firmware.bin"

or
 	"git nohistory -i-understand-this-might-be-dangerous firmware.bin"



cheers,
Petko
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git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 3:34 am)
Re: git and binary files, David Symonds, (Wed Jan 16, 3:54 am)
Re: git and binary files, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Jan 16, 4:54 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 6:21 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 6:39 am)
Re: git and binary files, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Jan 16, 6:42 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jakub Narebski, (Wed Jan 16, 6:53 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jeff King, (Wed Jan 16, 6:54 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 6:58 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:04 am)
Re: git and binary files, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Jan 16, 7:07 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:14 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jeff King, (Wed Jan 16, 7:18 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jakub Narebski, (Wed Jan 16, 7:20 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:21 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:25 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jeff King, (Wed Jan 16, 7:32 am)
Re: git and binary files, Wincent Colaiuta, (Wed Jan 16, 7:34 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:39 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:43 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 7:45 am)
Re: git and binary files, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Jan 16, 8:01 am)
Re: git and binary files, Rogan Dawes, (Wed Jan 16, 8:05 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 8:18 am)
Re: git and binary files, Nicolas Pitre, (Wed Jan 16, 8:58 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 9:06 am)
Re: git and binary files, Petko Manolov, (Wed Jan 16, 9:09 am)
Re: git and binary files, Jakub Narebski, (Wed Jan 16, 9:34 am)
Re: git and binary files, Florian Weimer, (Wed Jan 16, 9:41 am)
Re: git and binary files, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Jan 16, 11:02 am)
Re: git and binary files, Junio C Hamano, (Wed Jan 16, 11:09 am)
Re: git and binary files, David Brown, (Thu Jan 17, 11:52 pm)