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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what’s the problem?

  It’s basically just keeping a bunch of separate files but with extra steps.

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  • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would genuinely rather use git in such a scenario than not because there are plenty of other useful features over a bunch of files in a folder. Sure, obviously if the file is massive it is inconvenient, but that’s not a fair comparison because we’re comparing multiple copies “FINAL FINAL FOR REAL” in a folder anyways. There isn’t suddenly less size that way. It seems incredibly silly to describe it as “keeping files with extra steps” because people aren’t using git for space saving, they’re using it for version tracking. Everything git does is “keeping files with extra steps.”

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything git does is “keeping files with extra steps.”

      Not quite, because text files are stored as incremental diffs, which not only saves massive amounts of space but allows for effective comparisons of what exactly has changed between versions. While the former is more of a nice bonus these days with storage being extremely cheap, the latter is in fact the main reason one would use git to begin with.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Binary files too can be stored as incremental diffs

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t want to engage in this conversation if you’re going to ignore everything else I said about how binary files since that what were talking about.

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