Le 30/11/15 10:37, Marc LE BIHAN a écrit :
> I don't understand why it is mandatory to ask for an action of the INFRA
> team for a 3 Mb file that we can restore ourselves, re-commit again, or
> forget, depending on our wishes.
We do not have the credential for doing a "push --force" to the Git
repositories. INFRA-10826 has been filled in the hope that someone
having this credential would do.
Indeed, the 3 Mb file does not have any impact on users who checkout the
code from SVN. My concern was about Git users: large binary files
increase the download time and consume space in user's local history. A
single 3 Mb file is not so much, but I know by experience that the size
of geospatial projects grow too big if we are not careful about test
data. When I was participating to the GeoTools project, I spent a few
days with a colleague in removing big binary files from Subversion
history (by filtering the dump file) after the company hosting the code
complained against its size (because of backups becoming more difficult).
Martin
