ncsurobotics / SW-Altium-Libraries

A collection of component libraries used in club PCB projects.
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Alternate Library Management solution #3

Open MB3hel opened 2 years ago

MB3hel commented 2 years ago

Need a different approach to library management. This repository is getting to be larger than desired...

Core problem is that git + binary files = space inefficient and the IntLib (URCLib) is frequently updated requiring rewrites. Additionally, diffs (and thus merges and many branch features) are not usable

Options to investigate:

MB3hel commented 2 years ago

Unfortunately, there really may not be a better option... https://github.com/issus/altium-library uses binary schlib and pcblib files...

MB3hel commented 2 years ago

In the meantime, updating documentation to recommend cloning with --depth 1 would be good, because I'm told that's not a feature people often know of