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Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more
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Consider manage patched and unpatched fonts using git LFS to reduce repo size? #1441

Closed LNKLEO closed 9 months ago

LNKLEO commented 9 months ago

the reason this repo too large is because of font files, especially patched fonts, consider using git-lfs to track them and rewrite history will resolve this problem. the only side effect is need to force push whole rewrited history and the upload lfs objects will take a huge time but only the first time, and everyone may be need to reclone the repo. but the repo size will decrease to a vary small size.

Finii commented 9 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, something like this and other solutions were already suggested, but unfortunately I can not force push to the repo.

So my aim would be to drop in-repo-releases completely, and then the growth rate will become much less.

In principle the plan was to divide this repo into multiple ones, (patcher itself [1], source font collection, each patched font in own repo (so that we can update-release one font while others do not need to be touched) and maybe a release repo that collect all the info.

But, that needs certain rights... work on that has halted.

[1] https://github.com/NerdFonts

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