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<p>Bicschneider: Adding link to Git Artifact</p> <hr /> <div>* messiest git situation and how it was solved<br /> ** a while ago: project with sub modules 4 levels deep, not well supported at the time<br /> <br /> * when to use git submodules? <br /> ** e.g. when depending on third party dependency code (googletest, zlib, ...)<br /> ** when 2 products use the same public interface - extract it into a submodule<br /> ** a submodule stores url, path, sha1 -&gt; saves time when re-building<br /> <br /> * git now supports sparse (partial) checkouts, filtered clone, large file storage (LFS)<br /> ** LFS helps where large binary files change a lot, &quot;plain&quot; git is already great for big files that don&#039;t change<br /> <br /> * how to migrate from subversion to git when lots of deployment <br /> ** git tags?<br /> ** git describe relative to a tag - soft indicator of where in timeline you are <br /> ** timestamp of commit? - hard to get back to a specific commit from a given timestamp<br /> ** (not a sales pitch) consider getting external help, eficode has experience in this area<br /> <br /> * pros and cons of monorepos<br /> ** split or not based on behaviour / branching strategy / verification<br /> ** is it good enough for what I need to do right now?<br /> <br /> * cool git tricks that might be useful for the average user<br /> ** git diff filters to quickly see changes to checked in xls/zip/images... files (.gitattributes + .gitconfig section diff)<br /> ** git smudge filters, e.g. for dynamically changing line breaks to unix/windows, encrypting/decrypting sensitive data (also used for LFS)<br /> <br /> Git Artifact: https://github.com/Praqma/git-artifact</div>

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