joehand
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8 years ago From @thadguidry on January 13, 2015 1:44
Another issue that might come up is trying to store a large file in Github regardless of displaying or not in Github's web view.
Github's Large File support and Disk Quota are properly documented here: https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/
From @karissa on January 13, 2015 1:30
it'd be nice to be able to provide github as a storage solution/backend module for dat. it might also be nice to have an github -> dat importer or something.
edit: this might not even need a technical solution -- it could be solved by writing a good "github importer guide"
One example where this could be immediately useful is in cases like the following link, where a political scientist has uploaded many csv files which are just too big for Github to display, but small enough where github still seems like a viable option for version control. (github shows "We can't beautify this..)
https://github.com/ulfelder/democracy-measurement-model/blob/master/data.out
Another example is where one wants to port data from a github repo directly into a dat instance. so they were using github for version control, but now want a more robust solution and are looking for dat as an alternative.
Copied from original issue: maxogden/dat#275