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> Why is it several gigs? Is that really necessary?

Just wait until you have to store deep learning training data.

Sounds like something to store in not-git.

Git has large file storage now: https://git-lfs.github.com/

That is not-git, storing files this way will not increase your repo size. Same with git-annex, same with commiting .txt files with a URL to a file on S3.

I'm using git-shell to serve my repo. Can those extensions run over git-shell? Or do I need to set up a new server?

They are separate. git-lfs needs a separate server, that will communicate with the Git client over HTTP (not SSH), and git-annex can use a variety of different backends for storing the data (which doesn't need to be related to the Git repository) such as S3, FTP, webdav, Google Drive, ... and even git-lfs.

GitLab and Gitea come with a git-lfs server, but I don't know if there is any standalone server that you could use with git-shell.

Ok, thanks. This is why I hope large file support will be integrated in Git.

It's just too much of a hassle to figure out the security implications of yet another server, and administrating it, setting up the connection between Git and the plugin, etc.

Or, you know, a separate repository?

or, you know, a database?

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