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Selective syncing of a git repository subfolders #23655

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Hello @xplosionmind and welcome to the community.

I don’t think this is a silly question at all 😀 On the other hand, I don’t think that this is exclusively a git or GitHub question …

git, as a tool, is specifically designed to handle versioning text files. Out of necessity, it will version binary files such as images also but isn’t optimized for those types of files. So, in your hypothetical situation, not only will you run into a problem of storage on your local computer but you’ll increasingly run into a problem where git doesn’t handle well the types of files you’re asking it to deal with.

Because of this, I would store the large files someplace else such as Amazon’s S3 or Azure Blob S…

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