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Created June 6, 2017 10:54
How to track large files (database, PSD, bin) in Git? — First published in fullweb.io issue #103

How to track large files (database, PSD, bin) in Git?

Sometimes you have PSD or a small-ish SQLite file you’d like to track with Git. The problem is Git is bad at tracking changes in big binary files by default. With Git Large File Storage (LFS) you can replace these large files with text pointers while storing the file contents on a remote server. Both GitHub and BitBucket support it. Here is how to get started:

1. Install Git LFS extension (Mac here):

brew install git-lfs