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GitHub is announcing that is will soon support the open source extension Git LFS (Large File System) on every repository they host.
This extension allows the replacement of large files (audio samples, images, textures models, various assets...) by references pointing to a remote server, allowing you to store huge files in your repository. While GitHub is only now implementing it as part of its service, it can be used without GitHub as of now.
This system could easily benefit organizations and projects relying on a heavy quantity of assets.
See the official announcement here on the GitHub blog.
Do you use GitHub for your work? How do you think this could be implemented in your organization and projects? I know this will end up replacing the complex workflow I have put in place in my company, based on on a intricate system of submodules.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by NCommander on Thursday April 09 2015, @08:31PM
While the SN repo is small enough it wouldn't change anything for us, I can imagine it will go a *long* way with organizations that have non-coders that have to interact with a codebase. I was a developer on a MMORPG, and had to work with artists who didn't know the first thing about quality control. Due to the nature of the game and the codebase, one frequently needed to have assets including, test in game and tweaked. This would frequently require having to make multiple roundtrips of getting assets, updating assets via , and committing considerably simpler if I could just point git at a URL and grab on the fly.
Still always moving
(Score: 1) by cats on Friday April 10 2015, @10:38AM
I think this will be big for games developers and graphic designers. In my experience graphics folks tend not to use version control at all. It will be cool if in 5-10 years we'll be able to fork a movie on GitHub and make our own custom edits.
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