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Large text files

Large text files

Posted Feb 12, 2026 2:45 UTC (Thu) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade

Large text files are problematic in git too I think, is there any work on that?

For example, my 51M .bash_history file that just adds more lines to the end at each commit, blows up to a 2.2GB git repo, and the Debian security tracker data repo is enormous.


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