[ImageJ-devel] Big objects in the imglib2 repository

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi Stephan,

when I just pulled imglib2, it was an eighteen-megabyte download even if I
had fetched from that repository recently. Helper script to the rescue:

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/master/bin/what-made-this-repo-so-large.sh

It looks like you added a 20MB examples/l1-cns.tif.zip as an example to
the copy-realtransformaccess branch. Maybe it would be a good idea to
learn from the problems we had with precompiled/ in Fiji (and that you
pointed out so eloquently a couple of times which triggered my suggesting
using soft-commits, then introducing the precompiled-fallback hack to
Fake, and finally our switch to Maven, all to address the same problem)
and try to keep binary data out of the source code repository?

I could imagine that we either switch to a binary-only repository for
example files, or that we use fiji.sc/samples/ for them?

Ciao,
Johannes