• towerful@programming.devEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    This has to be a joke.

    GitHub is owned by microsoft. So just use onedrive, a system actually designed for storing files.

    Git is terrible for binary files and karge files. So even if you self host a git repo, you are probably going to have a bad time.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Git is terrible for binary files and large files

      You say that like SharePoint is any better which OneDrive is a front end for.

      • towerful@programming.devEnglish
        22·
        8 days ago

        Id say it probably is.
        For single user backing up, archiving, cloud access for binary files… yeh, sharepoint/onedrive probably IS better than git.

        BUT, i say that with 0 experience of using either for that. I use git for text, and i havent had the “pleasure” of onedrive/sharepoint.
        But i have a feeling that onedrive/sharepoint will have an edge over git as a cloud drive system. Even if its just from a tooling/integration standpoint

    • calliope@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      81·
      9 days ago

      Large files is actually what git-lfs was made for. I haven’t used it extensively but the project has been around for quite a while (implying some measure of stability/userbase). I heard about it over ten years ago.

      But your point still stands. GitHub isn’t the solution unless you have few files that you don’t mind being public (because I think GitHub has exposed private repos before).

      • towerful@programming.devEnglish
        9·
        9 days ago

        Yeh, there are workarounds for large & binary files.
        Git-LFS stores a pointer to the file that is stored elsewhere.
        So… you have a git repo of files that point to somewhere that stores the actual files.
        Great if your graphics/assets pipeline or whatever stores the files somewhere, and your codebase uses those assets.
        Not great as the primary system to replace google/microsoft drive.

        Might as well just have/use something that stores the actual files.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      31·
      9 days ago

      Better yet, use an end-to-end encrypted service so that they can’t use everything you store there as AI training material.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 days ago

    Github will call you if you hit 5GB in a repository, Google drive lets you have 15.

    You’d have to write your own sync routines, and Github also has individual file size limits.

    • UpperBroccoli@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      You’d have to write your own sync routines

      Or use gitfs. Yes, that really exists. Because of course it does.