Hi Martin, I think GitHub has a limit of 100 Megs per file so I wouldn't worry too much about a 3 Meg test file. Am I wrong about the file size limits in GitHub?
Adam Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Martin Desruisseaux > <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
