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wongarsutoday at 2:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Git does great with text files, but game development contains a lot of binary assets (textures, videos, 3d models) and correspondingly huge repos. git-lfs tries to patch around that, but that makes a complex tool that creatives struggle to understand even more complex. Perforce is a pretty popular solution, and was used by Epic in the past


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frollogastontoday at 3:31 PM

Have to think they're doing this out of a real need, given they were already using Perforce and must've considered Git too. It's also not like 2010s when version control was a hyped thing.

koolalatoday at 4:14 PM

Is there no git trick to turn off version control on non-text files but still store them? How does Lore handle them better?

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