Use git lfs to track binary files

[LucBerge]

The .git folder is growing fast: 5Gb.

Use git lfs to track:

• *.d2o
• *.d2i
• *.swf

[LucBerge]

See https://notiz.dev/blog/migrate-git-repo-to-git-lfs And https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Tutorial#migrating-existing-repository-data-to-lfs

$ git lfs migrate info --everything --include="*.d2i"
migrate: Sorting commits: ..., done.
migrate: Examining commits: 100% (309/309), done.
*.d2i   3.2 GB  71/71 files(s)  100%

$ git lfs migrate info --everything --include="*.d2o"
migrate: Sorting commits: ..., done.
migrate: Examining commits: 100% (309/309), done.
*.d2o   2.0 GB  793/793 files(s)        100%

$ git lfs migrate info --everything --include="*.swf"
migrate: Sorting commits: ..., done.
migrate: Examining commits: 100% (309/309), done.
*.swf   178 MB  23/23 files(s)  100%

[LucBerge]

Using git lfs to manage the binary files is not enough. GitHub lfs storage is limited to 1Gb. The current usage is 3Gb with *.d2i files.

History (or part of it) must be removed as well : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13716658/how-to-delete-all-commit-history-in-github

[LucBerge]

Using git lfs is not a long term solution since the binary files will soon or later be bigger than 1Gb. The repo limit on GitHub is 10Gb. The best solution is to erase history for binary files when needed and not to use git lfs.

[LucBerge]

The repo size decreased from 5Gb to 1Gb.