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

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> > > * 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 bina=
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file changes diff very bad and produce huge histories with basically no val=
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for the user of the working copy? Can you do this from a GUI, easily? We're=
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talking about media repositories here, so our users are artists.

Cheers,
Kai


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Kai Blin
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