A Stroll Down Memory Lane I was introduced to Git and GitHub in May of 2014 – just shy of 10 years since Git was created in 2005. That same day I was also handed a MacBook Pro laptop and an IntelliJ license, the main tools with which I was to begin my new role …
Git has become an industry standard for source code control. However, it is not designed to store binary files efficiently, and storing large binary files in a Git repository can quickly inflate it, making it sluggish to respond. This is where Git LFS comes into play. Git LFS is a Git extension designed to accommodate …
The popularity of the Git version control system among developers has grown consistently over the last few years, with many Subversion users making the switch to Git’s ‘file system snapshot’ approach, which differs from the ‘file change logging’ approach of classic VCS software. Git’s Little Problem – Large Files However, Git was originally meant to …
