Re: Should I store large text files on Git LFS?

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, Farshid Zavareh wrote:

I'll probably test this myself, but would modifying and committing a 4GB text 
file actually add 4GB to the repository's size? I anticipate that it won't, 
since Git keeps track of the changes only, instead of storing a copy of the 
whole file (whereas this is not the case with binary files, hence the need for 
LFS).

well, it wouldn't be 4G because text compresses well, but if the file changes 
drastically from version to version (say a quarterly report), the diff won't 
help.

David Lang