Binary files in VCS

[jsarenik]

Hello!

First, let me thank you for working on wincompose. I come from X.org/Linux world but sometimes need to use Windows and WinCompose is a wonderful tool to make that OS much more useful!

Have a look at my fork https://github.com/jsarenik/wincompose . The difference is, there are no binaries in the repository tree. The bin-free tree I got simply by running

git filter-branch --tree-filter "rm -rf bin"

The command above will change every commit in the repository so you will have to git push --force but once done, nobody will ever have to download all the past versions upon git clone...

All the binaries can be uploaded to Releases section of the project https://github.com/jsarenik/wincompose/releases by using tags

git tag v0.4.6 67ed8e1fd3296a9a9b3a96d2a35c93f89f176470
git push --tags

(the rest is done by using GitHub WebUI's tab Releases)

I really appreciate your work on WinCompose!
Thanks and good luck!

http://build-doctor.com/2008/08/22/your-version-control-system-is-not-a-file-system/

[samhocevar]

Thanks for the information. This looks like a sensible thing to do.

[zommuter]

Good point! Github also has a brief documentation on creating releases:
https://help.github.com/articles/about-releases
https://help.github.com/articles/creating-releases
https://help.github.com/articles/listing-and-editing-releases

[jsarenik]

There were also *.exe files in root (out of bin) in older commits, so the filter branch would look like

git filter-branch --tree-filter "rm -rf bin *.exe"

[jsarenik]

Hat off! Wonderful!