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I’m already using Git for source code related versioning, but some use cases involving large binary files with partial updates isn’t well covered by Git (I’ve gone into some detail in my reply to @vvv@programming.dev).

There’s also the lack of svn:externals in Git. Git submodules can only point to a whole different repository as far as I’m aware.

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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What you’re looking for is git-annex

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- cygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That would (just like Git LFS) store full, separate copies of every single version of the large files I manage. I really, really don’t want to go there, nor do I have even a fraction of the hard drive space for that…
  
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  - lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Doesn’t it store deduplicated chunks?
    
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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Also for externals see: stackoverflow.com/questions/571232/…/18088319#180…

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- cygon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s what I meant when I wrote “Git submodules can only point to a whole different repository” - they can’t point to a path inside a repository, only to another repository root. That unfortunately renders them useless for me (I’d have to set up in the order of hundreds of small repositories for the sets of shared data I have).
  
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  - wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Sounds like your problem could easily be solved with a symlink…
    
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    DampCanary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    which breaks if you checkout on windows
    
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
While true, Git also supports symlinks, so nothing is stopping you from having modules/ directory or something similar and then in link part of it elsewhere in your project.

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