gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread John Griessen
As I use version control for projects, I often have datasheets in pdf form and images along with the data that compresses well in git. Does anyone know a good way to deal with such files? I'm thinking of making a script to move those files out of the git controlled directory and link to them

Re: gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread Jason
John Griessen wrote: As I use version control for projects, I often have datasheets in pdf form and images along with the data that compresses well in git. Does anyone know a good way to deal with such files? It looks like git-submodule [1] may do what you want without the headache of

Re: gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread John Griessen
On 11/01/2010 01:10 PM, John Griessen wrote: What do you do to avoid git repos bloat with changes of docs you are using in the early phases of a project? I hit on something that I like. Here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540535/managing-large-binary-files-with-git there's talk of

Re: gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread Karl Hammar
John Griessen: As I use version control for projects, I often have datasheets in pdf form and images along with the data that compresses well in git. Does anyone know a good way to deal with such files? I usually do wget -x -N -c url in ~/Net/http so I have the complete url to the file

Re: gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread John Griessen
On 11/01/2010 03:18 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: If you do something like mkdir Todo echo Todo/ .gitignore git-commit -m 'Todo/ is a work area git should not care about' .gitignore then you have a work area*inside* the repo which git does not care about. I like that. That's a helpful idea

Re: gEDA-user: version control and non text files

2010-11-01 Thread Karl Hammar
John Griessen: On 11/01/2010 03:18 PM, Karl Hammar wrote: If you do something like mkdir Todo echo Todo/ .gitignore git-commit -m 'Todo/ is a work area git should not care about' .gitignore then you have a work area*inside* the repo which git does not care about. I like