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ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not ideal, but for a thesis — which ideally has an end date after which it won’t be used — it’s not a huge problem I’d argue.

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• MinekPo1@lemmygrad.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  both Microsoft office and open/libre office files are zip files containing mostly XML so its not that bad actually , as long as you expose the files inside to git

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• IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s the issue with binaries in git? Just that diff’ing binary files is useless?

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are generally large, uncompressable and replaced instead of updated like text files. All files stay in the repo history forever, they make repos big and slow compared to text files with no advantages provided.

    If a binary file needs to be stored in git, it’s usually more appropriate to use git LFS for that file. Git LFS stores the binary outside of the repo in the same way that database engines store binary outside of the respective table.

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    • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool! Good to know.

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