PSA: github file size limit means that some debian package imports can't be pushed to github.

[Sam@vilain.net]

git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub.

On March 9, 2017 7:42:20 AM PST, peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
>I have recently started pushing source for packages where we carry
>modifications for in raspbian to github. The packages are imported into
>git using dgit.
>
>However I have discovered that this is not possible for all packages.
>In particular github rejects files over 100 megabytes and the current
>libreoffice package has a 107 megabyte (upstream) ChangeLog in it.
>
>You might want to bear this in mind when considering packaging
>workflows that may involve github.
>
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