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

[peter green]

On 09/03/17 16:05, Sam at vilain.net wrote:
> git-lfs is your friend. And supported natively by GitHub.
>
Thanks but it seems like a highly undesirable soloution to me.

Firstly it seems to require mangling your git repo. That is going to make it at best a PITA to use with things like dgit.

Secondly AIUI git-lfs stores every version of the file seperately. If so then one would very quickly blow through the default storage and bandwidth limitations for githubs lfs offering.


> 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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