PDFs in git, reduce size
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Mar 15, 20262631 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
I have a git repository with many PDF files in there. The git repository is increasing so much in size that it's very complicated to clone the repository to a new host when the Internet connection is limited... I used which costs me a lot of RAM and didn't do anything useful. The size of the reposi…
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git gc && git gc --aggressive
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Fix for: PDFs in git, reduce size
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Neither Git nor Mercurial handle large binary files very well. They both make the assumption that files being tracked are relatively small and easily diffable, but PDF files are neither. If you've already run , then your repository isn't going to ge…
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