When another developer goes to pull down a revision, the changes are pulled as they normally would and all hashes that represent files handled by LFS are then fetched from a central storage location. That version of the large binary file is then stored in a folder managed by LFS and pushed to a separate storage location when pushing your commits to a remote.
Rather than storing a delta of a large binary in the repository and bloating it’s size, a hash of the file is generated and that is what is committed to the main Git repository. LFS (aka Large File Storage) is the latest, most active and mature solution to large binaries in a Git repository.Īt a high level, it’s an additional process run on your files before they are committed. Git’s large binary support had also reached reasonable maturity and so the great SVN to Git+LFS migration began. Not to mention, the younger cohort of devs had never used SVN, it was just footnote mention in their education! Our, now larger, dev teams were experiencing all the common frustrations with SVN.
While on the topic of thrift, we hosted all of our ~500 GB of repositories on a Dreamhost shared hosting plan.Īt the time, Git did have plugins to handle large binaries like git-annex and git-media but they were immature and cumbersome for a small team to setup and use.īy the start of 2018 the time was right to make the switch.
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With projects like that in mind, we had to stick with a centralized solution like SVN or Perforce and starting as a poor bootstrapped company we opted for the free open source solution, SVN :) Those videos would get updated by the client endlessly, mid development, without time to write proper tooling to separate the large assets from the repository. For us, it wouldn’t be unusual for a project to contain many large videos, with specific metadata that helped track video elements whose features were tightly coupled to the codebase. Since a Git repo contains all revisions of all files, highly revised binary assets aren’t handled well. Working on projects with unpredictable client changes, constantly changing build processes and large, tightly coupled assets Git really couldn’t be a valid solution for us.
Git to Git+LFS - Getting LFS to handle those large files in all revisions Map Commit Authors - Mapping your SVN users over to your Git accounts RationaleĪs a studio that creates games and interactive experiences we’ve watched for years in envy of development teams that were able to use Git. If you’re looking for just a portion of the process skip ahead to one of the following sections: In this post we walk through the whole thought process and steps of getting from SVN to Git to Git+LFS.
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