Hi, On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Petko Manolov wrote: > Some of my projects require having binary files (firmware and other > stuff) somewhere in the tree structure. Unfortunately these files are > big - 50MB and more. After a couple of new versions arrive (and get > committed) i end up with a repository way too big than necessary. > > The nature of these binary files is such that i don't care neither about > their history nor older versions. Hence the question: is there an easy > way to tell git not to bother about the history of these particular > files and keep the most recent version only? Your subject is a little bit misleading, no? It's not about the binariness (git handles binary files just fine, thankyouverymuch), but about the not-tracking them. The answer is no. You cannot ask git to have the newest version of something, but not the old ones. It contradicts the distributedness of git, too. Hth, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
